[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1551]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                             CLIMATE CHANGE

  (Mr. HUFFMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. HUFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, I'm honored to represent the Second 
District of California, which spans from the Golden Gate Bridge to the 
Oregon border. Mine is a district with hundreds of miles of pristine 
coastline, with numerous rivers, and coldwater fisheries, with ancient 
forests and redwood trees, with cities located right up against San 
Francisco Bay.
  It's a district where unique climatic factors have combined to create 
some of the world's greatest wine appellations. And we know, in the 
Second District of California, that we cannot wait to address the 
threat of climate change.
  On the State level, I have fought to defend and successfully 
implement California's world-leading greenhouse gas reduction law for 
the past 6 years, but that is not enough. We need leadership here at 
the Federal level.
  If we fail to act, Mr. Speaker, the livelihoods of fishermen, 
crabbers, foresters, farmers and others in my district are going to 
suffer great harm. The cost of Congress continuing to bury its head on 
the issue of climate change is simply too great.
  And so I am proud to be joining other colleagues, with Chairman 
Waxman, in the Safe Climate Caucus, and to take this cause to the 
national level.

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