[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 152 (2006), Part 7]
[Senate]
[Page 9110]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE

  Mr. FEINGOLD. Mr. President, today the Senate Foreign Relations 
Committee took an important step on the issue of global climate change 
by passing a resolution, introduced by Chairman Lugar and Ranking 
Member Biden, that expresses the need for the United States to address 
global warming through the negotiation of fair and effective 
international commitments. While it remains to be seen whether the full 
Senate will take up and pass the resolution, I am encouraged by the 
growing awareness in Congress of the need to face the facts on global 
climate change. Just last week, a report was released by a nonprofit 
group, Christian Aid, which suggests that climate change could lead to 
millions of deaths in Africa. In my role as chairman and ranking member 
of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs, I have 
paid significant attention to the challenges faced by the continent of 
Africa, and as we look to the future, we must address the consequences 
our global energy habits will have on less developed nations, in 
addition to the consequences on our own constituents. I applaud the 
leadership of Chairman Lugar and Ranking Member Biden on Senate 
Resolution 312 and I hope that the Senate will move quickly to adopt 
it.

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