The presiding officer the senior senator from new york. Mr. Siewrm i ask unanimous consent the quorum be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Schumer i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Schumer mr. President , i understand that h. J. Res. 80 has been received from the house and is at the desk. The presiding officer the clerk will read the title of the resolution for the first time. The clerk h. J. Res. 80, making continuing appropriatio approprr the bureau of indian affairs, the bureau of Indian Education and the Indian Health service for fiscal year 2014 and for other purposes. Mr. Schumer i would ask for its second reading and object to my own request. The presiding officer objection having been heard, the resolution will be read for a second time on the next legislative day. Mr. Schumer mr. President , i ask unanimou
Excellence. So be that role model always. Which is very closely related to Lesson Learned number seven, ethics. The importance of ethics. And by the way, one of the things that has kept me very busy this the last three months in the last three months was a major failure of integrity, our core value number one. It occurred in our missile community, the icbm community, and ill just take a minute now to talk about this. It gets down to ethics. And this was a cheating situation that occurred. And by the way, it grew out of a drug investigation. And cell phones were confiscated as part of this drug investigation, and in the forensic analysis of the cell phones, it was discovered that those who are in the mess Sill Community and missile in community and are in charge of our icbm Nuclear Weapons had cheated on a proficiency test which i think i was two or three weeks on the job when this came to the light, came to our attention at the senior levels. And the first thing i asked was, holy cow,
National oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the numbers from the National Academy of sciences and said they really drive me to the judgment that Climate Change is the scientific equivalent of a speeding mack truck. But, madam president , i believe numbers really dont capture this discussion fully because what people really want to know is whats the impact of Climate Change in their community . What does it really mean for them in actually their part of our country . So to get into those impacts, i want to start with one that is really shellacking my home state, and that is these wildfires that are burning longer, getting hotter and starting earlier. Drought and high temperatures from Climate Change are driving all of this. During the early part of this past year, fires and intense wildfires burned across parts of the United States, threatening Population Centers and destroying hundreds of homes, and this winter, fires have already burned in western oregon, something that used to b
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