[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 11 (Thursday, January 22, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S435]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 114. Mr. COONS 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:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. __. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING CLIMATE CHANGE.

       It is the sense of Congress that--
       (1) climate change is real and is caused by human 
     activities;
       (2) climate change is already impacting the United States 
     with sea level rise, ocean acidification, and more frequent 
     and intense extreme weather events such as droughts, floods, 
     wildfires, and heat waves;
       (3) climate change poses risks to multiple sectors of the 
     economy of the United States, including national defense, 
     agricultural systems, energy, and transportation, as well as 
     human health and the environment;
       (4) the impacts of climate change have significant economic 
     costs that will occur year after year and increase with 
     further delays in global action;
       (5) the extent of future climate change is largely 
     determined by the choices the United States and other nations 
     make in the immediate future;
       (6) the Federal Government, tribal nations, States, local 
     communities, and the private sector must continue to take 
     action to prepare and adapt communities to climate change;
       (7) the United States has a responsibility to children and 
     future generations of the United States to mitigate the 
     harmful effects of climate change;
       (8) the actions of the United States taken to mitigate and 
     adapt to the impacts of climate change cannot come at the 
     expense of the prosperity of the United States;
       (9) the actions of a single nation cannot solve the climate 
     crisis, so solutions that address both mitigation and 
     adaption must involve developed and developing nations around 
     the world;
       (10) investing in the development of innovative clean and 
     renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies will--
       (A) enhance the global leadership and competitiveness of 
     the United States; and
       (B) create and sustain short and long term job growth; and
       (11) the United States should act immediately to address 
     climate change because the longer the United States waits, 
     the more severe and costly the impacts of climate change will 
     be, and the harder it will be for future generations to 
     address the crisis.
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