Providing for Congressional Disapproval of A Rule Submitted by the Environmental Protection Agency

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Mr. TED LIEU of California. Mr. Speaker, I am Congressman Ted Lieu from California. I rise in opposition to the Republican resolution opposing the Clean Power Plan.

This is just another example of the Republican majority denying the urgency and severity of carbon pollution. At a time when the entire world is meeting in Paris to address carbon pollution, you now have the Republican majority doing exactly the opposite.

Now, America is an exceptional country, the best in the world. One reason we got here is because we believe in science. We believe in facts.

So if 9 out of 10 doctors said that your child is showing the symptoms of diabetes, would you ignore that and keep feeding your child doughnuts? No. You would go seek treatment.

So listen to 9 out of 10 scientists that are saying carbon pollution is real and it is going to kill us as a species if we don't do anything about it.

If you don't want to listen to those scientists, listen to some of the most conservative companies and organizations in America. Listen to ExxonMobil today. They say carbon pollution is real, it is being caused by humankind, and they support putting a price on carbon emissions.

Listen to the U.S. military. I served in Active Duty, and I am still in the Reserves. I am very proud of our military. They take the world as it is, not as they think it should be, not as they hope it will be, but as it is. They rely on facts and science.

They are telling us carbon pollution is a national security threat and it is going to flood our bases, it is going to cause more extreme weather events, and it is going to make it much worse for humanity if we don't do something about it.

At the end of the day, America is going to lead and the history books are going to say we led the way in saving humanity and dealing with carbon pollution or there will be no history books.

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