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Transcript of Bicameral Congressional Delegation Press Conference at COP25 Madrid

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"By coming here, we want to say to everyone: we’re still in.  The United States is still in."

Our delegation is here to send a message that Congress’s commitment to taking action on the climate crisis is ironclad.  We must act, because the climate crisis for us is a matter of public health, clean air, clean water for children’s survival;

"our economy, advancing green, global – green technologies, which will LIFT EVERYONE UPas we address INCOME DISPARITY in the WORLD; national security, combating extreme weather events and RESOURCE COMPETITION that DRIVE MIGRATION; and others – OUR VALUES OF JUSTICE AND EQUALITY"

***I highlighted the key words. This us what it is all about. Not just "saving the planet" but making the world a "fair" place.***

I will be hosting that in Washington next year, and our theme is: ‘Address the Climate Crisis with Economic and Environmental Justice for All.’  MEETING THE NEEDS OF the vulnerable states, the vulnerable people, the indigenous people.

What President Sánchez talked about this morning: INCLUSION and ambition and the rest.  What the Secretary General spoke about: a VISION THAT WE ALL SHARE.

Again, coming from the Congress of the United States: we’re still in.

...And the America that you know – the America of leadership, the America of progress, the America of confidence, the America of clean and green energy,

people like President Obama and Secretary Kerry’s work at the original Paris COP is something we should all reflect on while we’re here today – THAT AMERICA WILL BE BACK.

...A plan for the United States of America, THROUGH ITS CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES, to tackle the climate crisis, to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, and to begin to adapt in a greater way to the climate crisis and it’s impacts.

We intend to follow the science.  We intend to ensure that vulnerable communities all across America and ACROSS THE GLOBE have every opportunity to participate in this clean energy economy and transformation.

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Chairman Pallone.  Thank you, Madam Speaker.  

I just want to stress what the Speaker Pelosi said is: that ‘WE'RE STILL IN’ and, she mentioned that Congress is committed to take action.  States are committed to take action.  Cities are committed to take action.

...So, I want, again, I want to thank the Speaker for bringing us here.  I think we’ve given out the message that we’re still in, Madam Speaker

(Chairwoman Johnson.)

I’m dismayed when I hear that to clean the planet and to give attention to the environment causes us to lose jobs.  We have not found that in our research.

(Chairman Grijalva.)

There was a comment made at the panel this morning dealing with VULNERABLE NATIONS and communities and the comment was, ‘Do we delay and pay or plan and prosper?’

...And, we need to incorporate the issue of vulnerability.  We have to incorporate the issue of HUMAN RIGHTS.  We have to incorporate the issues of the necessity for clean air, clean water, public health protections and there shouldn’t be CLIMATE DISCRIMINATION –

there shouldn’t be a misery index, where SOME PEOPLE get to SUFFER MORE as a consequence of not every body doing their full part to deal with the issue of climate change.  I look forward to it. 

***EVERYONE SHOULD EQUALLY SUFFER!***

(Speaker Pelosi.)  ... we came here to say: we’re still in it.

But the fact is also, being in it means we’re hear to listen and to learn, to recognize the challenges for the MOST VULNERABLE, including, as I mentioned earlier, the INDIGENOUS PEOPLE.

...And so, as we take action, we want to DO SO INCLUSIVELY and working together to think entrepreneurially and in fresh new ways.  Again listening and learning from each other.

***This really is a worldwide cult***