[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 4]
[House]
[Page 5375]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                         CLIMATE SOLUTIONS ACT

  (Mr. TED LIEU of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. TED LIEU of California. Mr. Speaker, in a modern society, all of 
us deal with a thousand issues, but there is only one issue that can 
kill humanity as a species, and that is climate change. Rising sea 
levels, more extreme weather events, and hotter temperatures are not 
partisan issues.
  Last month, President Reagan's former Secretary of State George 
Shultz wrote a column in The Washington Post asking for action on 
climate change. Today, on Earth Day, I am introducing the Climate 
Solutions Act, which will tackle climate change by focusing on three 
areas: slashing carbon pollution, implementing bold renewable portfolio 
standards, and setting high energy efficiency standards.
  In the future, our history books will write that America led the 
world on climate change and saved the planet--or there will be no more 
history books.

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