[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 11 (Thursday, January 22, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S428-S429]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 99. Mr. MANCHIN 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; as follows:

       After section 2, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING CLIMATE CHANGE.

       It is the sense of Congress that Congress is in agreement 
     with the opinion of virtually

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     the entire worldwide scientific community and a growing 
     number of top national security experts, economists, and 
     others that--
       (1) climate change is real;
       (2) climate change is caused by human activities;
       (3) climate change has already caused devastating problems 
     in the United States and around the world;
       (4) the Energy Information Administration projects that 
     fossil fuels will continue to produce 68 percent of the 
     electricity in the United States through 2040; and
       (5) it is imperative that the United States invest in 
     research and development for clean fossil fuel technology.
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