[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 14]
[House]
[Page 19201]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               RULES OF ENGAGEMENT: NO CLIMATE CASUALTIES

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, bullet holes are still visible in the 
walls of cafes, and the graves are fresh for those lives that were 
stolen by ISIS fighters in the streets of Paris. Meanwhile, the 
President is in Paris talking about his priority--the real threat--
climate change.
  While America has been unable or unwilling to defeat ISIS, it has 
been front and center in the war on climate change. Former CIA Director 
Mike Morrell said: ``And we didn't go after oil wells--actually hitting 
oil wells that ISIS controls because we didn't want to do environmental 
damage. . . .''
  The President has decided that the threat to the environment is more 
serious to him than the threat of ISIS terrorism.
  Mr. Speaker, oil funds ISIS' murderous reign of terror, but the 
President's new limited war doctrine has one rule of engagement: no 
climate casualties.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time for bombs to rain down over the ISIS war 
chest. Stop the flow of the blood oil. Not one more life should be lost 
because of a negligent and backwards strategy of a limited war based on 
climate change, an environmental-waged war that promotes not harming 
the environment over harming people.
  And that is just the way it is.

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