Oklahoma. The chaplain lets pray. Father, i thank you for the heroic leadership that this house of representatives has exemplified in the past week during this present crisis. I thank you for the late nights, i thank you for their heroic efforts to seek compromise. But i thank you for the Creative Solutions theyve proposed. Lord, at present there is no solution. And so today, father, we confess our desperate need for you. We joyfully conquer that you are the source concur that you are the source of wisdom and all strength resides with you. You are the author of unity, even when parties are in conflict. We ask you that you would grant supernatural breakthrough. Where there is no way forward, we pray that you would forge a way. When negotiations break down, please grant fresh ideas for debate. We ask this, lord, for your glory and for the good of the American People. We pray this in jesus name, men. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces
To actual temperatures, two things are readily evident. First, temperatures have flat lined over the last 15 years, and secondly, an average of over 100 climate models from the last decade show that the Scientific Community did not predict this would happen. To my knowledge, not a single climate model ever predicted that a pause in Global Warming would ever occur. Senator sessions is going to go deeper into this. The truth completely contradicts the president s statement and begs the question as to why he and the epa not only continue to deny the truth but why it has raced to stop this information from disseminating into scientific record. What im referring to is the administrations effort with other nations to lobby the ipcc to back up the president s statement in the most recent report. And while i did not think the ipcc explanation was sufficient, i have to at least give them credit for recognizing the facts for what they are and that the hiatus has occurred and does exist, is exist
Well now go to senator carper. For years ive been working with my colleagues here in congress and administration and all kinds of stakeholder groups across the country to tackle one of the Biggest Challenges of our generation, and thats Climate Change. I believe Climate Change exists and were living on borrowed time. The longer we wait to address the issue the more damaging and expensive it becomes. Before the recent session we had members from both parties including myself put forth legislative proposals that would grow our economy and provide for a safer climate. This was a time when our Climate Change debates focused on how we would grow our economy and clean our environment. Its not a novel idea in the 1970s and 1990s, republican president s and majority of members on both sides of the aisle supported, as youll recall, the Clean Air Act and the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990. These clean air protections protected our health but allowed our economy to grow exponentially. Unfortuna
Mr. Visclosky if i could ask my friend how many more speakers they have. Mr. Frelinghuysen we anticipate through the chair. Several more speakers. But we are both waiting perhaps for some additional mr. Visclosky thats what both of us are doing. We could continue doing it talking to each other. Mr. Frelinghuysen i would be happy to. Let me say i want to salute you and chairman young for sponsoring this legislation which is truly bipartisan. Bringing it to the floor and giving members of both parties an opportunity to join together at a time when theres a lot of disjointment around here and lack of consensus on this. Theres no argument at all. Im highly appreciative of all that you have done to assist this process. Mr. Visclosky i appreciate the gentlemans remark, mr. Young, who has announced his retirement at the end of this congress. You could find no finer person in the world kinder heart or wanting to leave the world better than our chairman. I was going to close but would use this
Entry. So you did not tested prior to october 1 . No, sir. Again that hearing you can see in its entirety tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. And yesterday the house energy and commerce subcommittee on communications and Technology Held a hearing on wired communications and internet protocolbased networks. Some of the topics discussed include the telecommunication laws surrounding those networks as well as the impact of Communications Advancements on consumers and businesses. This is a little more than two hours. [inaudible conversations] we will call the subcommitsubcommit tee on communications and technology to order and begin our hearing on the evolution of wired Communications Networks. Wired Communications Networks have come a long way since the days of the telegraph or the rotary phone. It is getting harder and harder to remember at a time when you wanted to reach out and touch someone ma bell twisted copper wires were the only option. Todays consumers have so many more optio