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




                       ADDRESSING CLIMATE CHANGE

  (Mr. CLEAVER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CLEAVER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call on my colleagues on 
both sides of the aisle to help our communities deal with changing 
climate. In the last 2 years alone, our country has dealt with 
destructive wildfires in the West, flooding on the Missouri and 
Mississippi Rivers, a devastating hurricane in the Northeast, and the 
worst drought since the Dust Bowl. Climate change preparation and 
adaptation is about risk management. As Ben Franklin said: an ounce of 
prevention is worth a pound of cure.
  Spending a small amount now saves us much suffering; and we 
understand, this is going to happen again and again. Because climate 
change is real, we are going to address this over and over and over 
again on this floor. Some people might say there is no such thing as 
climate change. Well, you can say that water is not wet, but it doesn't 
make it so.

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