[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 173 (Tuesday, December 1, 2015)]
[House]
[Page H8849]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                   CLIMATE CHANGE DEBATE NOT SETTLED

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, recently, President Obama declared climate 
change to be the number one adversary of the United States.
  He has proposed wide-ranging regulations to fight this supposed 
enemy, regulations that not only drastically increase the scope of 
government but could only irreparably damage our economy. Today, we 
voted to reject those policies.
  While he concentrates on crony capitalism disguised as feel-good 
policies, our true enemy has grown in strength and struck one of our 
oldest allies. We know this enemy: a radical form of Islam that has 
sworn to destroy Western civilization, that abuses and enslaves women, 
that seeks victory through suicide attacks and terrorizing civilians.
  From manufacturing fake data to fit computer temperature models, to 
manipulated actual temperatures being rounded up to fit the narrative, 
and the resistance by government entities to reveal their methodology 
and internal biases show that, indeed, the debate on climate change is 
far from settled.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time for the President to wake up, recognize that 
no nation should willingly choose to damage its own economy, as he 
proposes. It is time he recognized the United States' responsibility to 
the free world and end the self-destructive cycle that his policies 
would initiate.

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