[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 16522-16523]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             CLIMATE CHANGE

  (Ms. LEE of California asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Ms. LEE of California. Mr. Speaker, as a member of the Sustainable 
Energy and Environment Coalition and the Safe Climate Caucus, I rise to 
call for urgent congressional action on climate change.
  We must follow the examples of my home State of California, 
Washington, Oregon, and British Columbia. These leaders came together 
Monday and signed the Pacific Coast Action Plan on Climate and Energy. 
The action plan will help them to collectively reduce carbon pollution 
and greenhouse gas emissions, which will not only help the environment 
and public health but will also strengthen our economy.
  This is a small, but significant step to act on climate change. These 
leaders are taking these important steps because they know the 
consequences of inaction. They recognize that the effects of climate 
change cross borders freely. Republicans and Democrats should follow 
this good example of action, and our leadership should move forward to 
combat climate change.
  I, too, want to give my sympathy and my prayers with the loss of a 
great leader, Chairman Ike Skelton. And I know on behalf of my 
predecessor, my former boss, my colleague Congressman Skelton was a 
personal friend, and I know that he would want me to say today that he 
misses him.
  May his soul rest in peace.

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