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Concurrent Resolution on the Budget, Fiscal Year 2016

Floor Speech

By: Ed Markey
By: Ed Markey
Date: March 26, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Environment

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Mr. MARKEY. Mr. President, I rise in opposition to amendment No. 836,
which seeks to undercut the President's Clean Power Plan to address
climate change and reduce dangerous carbon pollution.

The year 2014 was the single most dangerous year ever recorded in
terms of temperatures, the warmest in history. NOAA and NASA continue
to chronicle this ever-worsening warming planet. Not only will the
President's power plan reduce greenhouse gasses, but it will also
reduce the amount of pollution that leads to dangerous smog-related
diseases that are contracted by Americans all across our planet.

Instead of debating this amendment, we should be debating the way to
reduce the impacts of dangerous greenhouse gases on our planet.

I urge my colleagues to vote no on this amendment.

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