[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 22]
[House]
[Page 29845]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   CO2 IS NOW A POLLUTANT

  (Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California asked and was given permission 
to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California. Madam Speaker, yesterday was a 
historic day. It will be a day which lives in economic infamy. The EPA 
administrator yesterday unsheathed the dagger at the heart of our 
economy when she announced an endangerment finding. Yes, CO2 
is now a pollutant. That means everyone in this Chamber, anyone who out 
there might be hearing us, you are now polluters. With every breath you 
take you emit CO2.
  This was never, ever, conceived by Congress when it passed the Clean 
Air Act. We now have a situation in which administrators are going to 
effectively control the entire economy and the way in which we live and 
the way in which we breathe. This is not the idea of freedom. This is, 
in fact, not an endangerment finding about clean air. This is an 
endangerment finding about our freedom.
  Our freedom took a vicious blow yesterday, and we, as representatives 
of our people, must act.

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