[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 41 (Thursday, March 7, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1742-S1743]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

      By Mr. SCHUMER (for himself, Mr. Carper, Mr. Reed, Mr. Van 
        Hollen, Mr. Whitehouse, Mr. Markey, Mr. Schatz, Ms. Smith, Mr. 
        Blumenthal, Mrs. Shaheen, Mr. Booker, Ms. Stabenow, Ms. 
        Klobuchar, Ms.

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        Hassan, Mr. Merkley, and Mrs. Feinstein):
  S. 729. A bill to prohibit the use of funds to Federal agencies to 
establish a panel, task force, advisory committee, or other effort to 
challenge the scientific consensus on climate change, and for other 
purposes; read the first time.
  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the text of 
the bill be printed in the Record.
  There being no objection, the text of the bill was ordered to be 
printed in the Record, as follows:

                                 S. 729

       Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
     the United States of America in Congress assembled,

     SECTION 1. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS TO CHALLENGE 
                   SCIENTIFIC CONSENSUS ON CLIMATE CHANGE.

       No amounts appropriated or otherwise made available to a 
     Federal agency (as defined in section 1004 of the Solid Waste 
     Disposal Act (42 U.S.C. 6903) and including the Executive 
     Office of the President) may be used to establish or operate 
     a panel, task force, other advisory committee, or other 
     effort intended to challenge the scientific consensus on 
     climate change, as presented in the assessment required under 
     section 106 of the Global Change Research Act of 1990 (15 
     U.S.C. 2936).

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