[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 12]
[House]
[Pages 16221-16222]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




 MAKE GLOBAL WARMING A PRIORITY THIS WEEK AS PART OF ENERGY AND WATER 
                                  BILL

  (Ms. SHEA-PORTER asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. SHEA-PORTER. Mr. Speaker, energy independence and fighting global 
warming are essential, and they are the challenges of our day. Years of 
inaction, even disbelief on the part of the White House and the 
Republicans, have delayed any real work being done.
  This week the Democratic Congress will bring a bill to the floor to 
change this. There will be an Energy and Water appropriations bill that 
will provide substantial funding to fight global warming. Overall, the 
bill appropriates $3 billion for researching the effects of global 
warming. This funding will allow us to monitor radiation in the 
atmosphere, to use state-of-the-art computer technology to conduct 
climate change modeling and to conduct long-term experiments on the 
impact of increased carbon dioxide levels on forests and other 
ecosystems.
  This research will finally allow us to have the science that we need 
to fight this battle. We have delayed it for years because of the 
Republican administration's inactivity. I hope that this

[[Page 16222]]

week the Republican leadership will join with the Democrats in Congress 
to finally move this forward.

                          ____________________