[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 18]
[House]
[Page 25719]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             GLOBAL WARMING

  (Mr. MARKEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MARKEY. Mr. Speaker, this week the world convened at the United 
Nations to combat climate change, but President Bush stayed away.
  While the rest of the world knows that carbon dioxide threatens the 
planet, this administration can't even decide if it endangers the 
planet.
  President Bush's response is not action, but talk. Instead of 
stopping the pollution, he starts a filibuster.
  President Bush has decided to host a conversation to discuss his 
aspiration for procrastination on global warming until he leaves 
office. It is time for America to save the planet from another 50 years 
of red, white and blue CO2. It is time for America to use 
its technological genius to launch a new future of clean power, new 
jobs, and lower cost.
  We have no choice. The ice is melting. The coral is dying. The 
forests are burning, and 30 percent of all species are in danger of 
extinction.
  President Bush, it is time to stop the empty rhetoric and to start 
saving the planet.

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