[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 37 (Thursday, February 28, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S1559]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                             Climate Change

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, now I want to address two more issues 
related to this topic.
  First, are the reports that the President is planning to create a 
panel of cherry-picked scientists who question the severity of climate 
change to ``counter'' the scientific consensus. I mentioned these 
reports earlier this week, but I want to update my friends in this 
Chamber that Democrats are in the process of preparing legislation that 
would defund this fake climate panel. We hope this legislation, like 
our resolution, will eventually be bipartisan because it shouldn't be 
partisan to oppose a group of handpicked climate deniers spreading the 
fossil fuel industry's propaganda under the imprimatur of the White 
House. It shouldn't be partisan to oppose the administration's setting 
up its own Orwellian Ministry of Truth on climate change.
  So I urge my friends on the other side of the aisle who believe in 
climate science to sign on to our legislation once we have it ready.