[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1549]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        THE SAFE CLIMATE CAUCUS

  (Mr. WAXMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WAXMAN. Mr. Speaker and my colleagues, today, 22 Members of the 
House have banded together to create a Safe Climate Caucus to end the 
conspiracy of silence in this House of Representatives about the 
dangers of climate change and the Republican denial of its existence 
and their rejection of the science.
  We are committing to talk every single day on the House floor about 
the urgent need to address climate change. President Obama is leading 
the way. He says we must respond to climate change because to do 
otherwise would be to betray our children and future generations.
  We are ready to get to work. We understand the threat facing our 
children, and we know our Nation has the know-how and the ingenuity to 
avoid the worst impacts of climate change, but to do so, we must act 
now.

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