[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 2517-2518]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          STOP CLIMATE CHANGE

  (Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today as a member of the 
Safe Climate Caucus to demand that this Tea Party Congress take action 
to stop climate change.
  Scientists agree that climate change is dangerous, and for those of 
you who only care about money, it's also costly. Republican skepticism 
of science has delayed action for far too long, but it's not too late 
to stop the worst of the effects. The victims of Superstorm Sandy know 
that we must act now.
  I call on my Republican friends to reject the extreme right-wing and 
to also

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repudiate your pollution-spewing buddies and suitors. Listen to the 
facts, the science, and the demands of the American people. We must 
take action now, not during the last term, by the way, when these two 
measures to avoid sequestration were passed--they're not in effect now. 
We need to take action right now.

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