[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 25 (Friday, February 15, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H569]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             CLIMATE CHANGE

  (Mrs. CAPPS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. CAPPS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to join my colleagues in 
addressing the immediate and increasing threat of climate change. 
States and localities are beginning to respond to this threat, but they 
can't do it alone. That's why I'm introducing two bills to help our 
communities prepare for the future impacts of climate change.
  The first is the Coastal States Climate Change Planning Act. It 
provides funding to coastal States and communities so they can plan and 
implement climate change mitigation projects, such as seawalls, habitat 
buffer zones, and flood control systems. The second bill is the Water 
Infrastructure Resiliency and Sustainability Act, which provides 
funding for local water agencies. Water agencies are very concerned 
about the need to increase the resiliency of our aging water 
infrastructure systems because they're going to be impacted by climate 
change. These critical infrastructure projects will not only improve 
public health and safety, but they will also help our local economies 
grow by providing jobs.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time to take action on climate change, so I hope 
we can work together to pass these and other commonsense measures to 
address such a critical issue.

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