[Congressional Record Volume 156, Number 65 (Tuesday, May 4, 2010)]
[House]
[Page H3084]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               PASS THE WAXMAN-MARKEY CLIMATE CHANGE BILL

  (Mr. HALL of New York asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. HALL of New York. Madam Speaker, I rise today to discuss the 
extreme weather events that have occurred over the last several months. 
From the massive rains and flooding this week in Tennessee, to the 
historic tornado in Mississippi, to this spring's flooding in New 
England and Connecticut and Rhode Island, to the February mudslides in 
Madeira, to the freak March Hurricane Xynthia that killed 40 people on 
the coast of France, it is clear that storms are getting more intense 
and weather patterns are changing, consistent with computer models of 
climate change.
  In Orange County, New York, my farmers have had to cope with so-
called 50-year floods that now seem to occur every year. Rivers may 
truly be the canary in the coal mine of global climate change. What 
more evidence do we need?
  It's time to stop denying that this change is happening and work 
together to stop the pollution that causes it. In the House we have 
acted, and now it's time for the Senate to take up and pass an energy 
and climate bill, which also by the way is a big jobs bill.

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