[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 17]
[House]
[Page 23318]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                            SAVE THE OCEANS

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Madam Speaker, yesterday, the actor Sigourney Weaver 
showed a movie in the Capitol which was scarier than her movie The 
Aliens because it was fact, not fiction, and it was a movie documenting 
the acidification of the oceans caused by carbon dioxide that we burn 
that goes in the atmosphere, goes in the water, and makes the oceans 
acidic. This documentary showed that the waters off the Pacific coast 
soon will be so acidic that they can actually melt shell life.
  The reason I mention this is that yesterday the EPA rolled out 
proposed rules to do something about these noxious gases. Some have 
said we shouldn't do that, but those are the same people saying we 
shouldn't pass a bill. They're saying we shouldn't regulate 
CO2 here, there, or anywhere.
  I urge all of us to move forward on a bipartisan basis to stop ocean 
acidification by passing the energy bill we passed in the House. We 
hope the Senate will pass it. That's a route to do it. But, one way or 
another, we've got to save the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

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