[Congressional Record Volume 155, Number 77 (Tuesday, May 19, 2009)]
[House]
[Page H5769]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




GLOBAL WARMING JUST ISN'T PANNING OUT THE WAY THE LEFT THOUGHT IT WOULD 
                                   BE

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. The icon on the left, Al Gore, spent millions of 
dollars, of course of other people's money, talking to everybody about 
global warming. And it was embraced with great passion by the left, 
global warming, global warming, global warming. But then when their own 
scientists peeled off and said it doesn't look like it's going to quite 
trend the way we think it is, what did they do? They pivoted. Well, 
they just mean climate change in general. I say that as somebody who 
rode his bike to work today, 49 degrees in the middle of May. I guess 
the global warming just isn't panning out the way it should be.
  But not to be bothered by it, the left is going to continue with 
their cap-and-tax proposal, reducing emissions to 80 percent of what 
they were in America in 1910, when we had 92 million Americans. And 
what's it going to cost you taxpayers? $1,500 a household, because do 
you think your good old friendly utility and gas company is just going 
to absorb this new tax on them? Of course not.
  Businesses aren't going to pay taxes over the long run. It's a 
function of cost, which is going to be passed on to the consumer; 
$1,500 per household, and they're going to exclude nuclear energy which 
is good enough for four out of five houses in France but not here in 
the Obama administration and the America that they want it to be.

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