[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 69 (Friday, April 19, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H2556]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           EXPORTING OUR JOBS

  (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, time and again around this facility, we 
will be in committee, and we will be having conversations, and what 
seems to be the biggest focus for a lot of the Democrats around here is 
climate change.
  I ask them: What is the target here? What is the issue?
  It seems to boil down to carbon dioxide, and they never seem to know 
what the actual composition of our atmosphere is of the carbon dioxide 
that we have. They don't know.
  Yet, we have all these goals they want to set for how many electric 
cars we are going to have by what year, or what power plants, or 
getting rid of your leaf blower or your barbecue.
  What it really boils down to is that CO2 is only 0.04 
percent of our atmosphere, and it is very beneficial to plants. Without 
it, we would not have plants, and without plants, we would not have us.
  The hypocrisy of people is that they are trying to ratchet down 
CO2 and put our American economy in peril. Exporting our 
economy and exporting our jobs to the Pacific Rim, to China, is going 
to be the result of this fallacy of the religion of climate change.

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