Climate Change Debate not Settled

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Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, recently, President Obama declared climate change to be the number one adversary of the United States.

He has proposed wide-ranging regulations to fight this supposed enemy, regulations that not only drastically increase the scope of government but could only irreparably damage our economy. Today, we voted to reject those policies.

While he concentrates on crony capitalism disguised as feel-good policies, our true enemy has grown in strength and struck one of our oldest allies. We know this enemy: a radical form of Islam that has sworn to destroy Western civilization, that abuses and enslaves women, that seeks victory through suicide attacks and terrorizing civilians.

From manufacturing fake data to fit computer temperature models, to manipulated actual temperatures being rounded up to fit the narrative, and the resistance by government entities to reveal their methodology and internal biases show that, indeed, the debate on climate change is far from settled.

Mr. Speaker, it is time for the President to wake up, recognize that no nation should willingly choose to damage its own economy, as he proposes. It is time he recognized the United States' responsibility to the free world and end the self-destructive cycle that his policies would initiate.

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