[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 6 (Tuesday, January 13, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S212]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 12. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2 proposed by Ms. Murkowski (for herself, Mr. Hoeven, Mr. 
Barrasso, Mr. Risch, Mr. Lee, Mr. Flake, Mr. Daines, Mr. Manchin, Mr. 
Cassidy, Mr. Gardner, Mr. Portman, Mr. Alexander, and Mrs. Capito) to 
the bill S. 1, to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline; which was ordered 
to lie on the table; as follows:

       After section 2, insert the following:

     SEC. __. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING THE SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS 
                   ON CLIMATE CHANGE.

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds that--
       (1) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 
     (NOAA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration 
     (NASA) agree that global warming is real and due to human 
     activity;
       (2) the National Academy of Sciences agrees that global 
     warming is real and due to human activity;
       (3) the American Association for the Advancement of Science 
     agrees that global warming is real and due to human activity;
       (4) the American Chemical Society agrees that global 
     warming is real and due to human activity;
       (5) the American Geophysical Union agrees that global 
     warming is real and due to human activity;
       (6) the American Medical Association agrees that global 
     warming is real and due to human activity;
       (7) the American Meteorological Society agrees that global 
     warming is real and due to human activity;
       (8) the American Physical Society agrees that global 
     warming is real and due to human activity; and
       (9) the Geological Society of America agrees that global 
     warming is real and due to human activity.
       (b) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) Congress should take under due consideration advice 
     from the leading scientific institutions in the United 
     States; and
       (2) global warming is real and due to human activity.
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