[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 52 (Wednesday, March 22, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H1319]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    REALITIES OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS

  (Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. KAMLAGER-DOVE. Madam Speaker, I rise today to highlight the 
realities of the climate crisis as seen in my district and across the 
State of California.
  Earlier this year, Los Angeles County issued its first blizzard 
warning since February 4, 1989.
  Unfamiliar wintry conditions resulting in up to a foot of snow with 
80-miles-per-hour winds overtook many parts of Los Angeles County, 
leaving Californians with flooded homes and no power.
  In my district, the Baldwin Hills neighborhood was hit with a local 
state of emergency as a disastrous rainstorm demolished daily rain 
records from over 100 years ago causing fatal mudslides. Today in Los 
Angeles, we suffered a tornado.
  This is not normal.
  Madam Speaker, I cannot stand idly by while Republicans continue to 
deny the validity of the crisis before us, seen firsthand by my 
district experiencing disastrous weather patterns not seen for over 
three decades.
  I have fought for the protection of our environment my entire life 
and will do everything in my power to work against the actions taken in 
this very room by my colleagues across the aisle to propagate the 
climate crisis that, if not addressed, will destroy Mother Earth and 
her inhabitants.
  We must take the lessons we are learning in California to heart 
because this is only the beginning.
  Madam Speaker, if this isn't a wake-up call, I don't know what is.

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