Lot and im just astounded by the problem mankind has created for the oceans. We can be better stewards of gods creation and what were going to dog is have a hearing today about some solutions, and senator leahy and myself will sit down and find a way to create somee kind of fund that people can contribute to. I know theyre doing it at the world bank, that i like the fund idea where the world kd of comes together under amecan leadership to solve the problem. So too are two colleagues, thank you very much for your leadership and senator leahy. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. With all joking they goes back and forth, i think it safe to say that the chairman and i feel very strongly about this. We do wt to help. Senator whitehouse and i were in vietnam last year. We met with the vietnamese officials and scientists to discuss Ocean Plastic poltion, had a great meeting. S. White house was a star at that, but heres a country with a 2000mile coastline, and when i say we, that means all huma
To covering live house coverage here on cspan as they gavel in eight bills today, including antilynching legislation. The speakr pro tempore the house will be in order. He prayer will be offere by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain onroy let us pray. Dear lord, we give you thanks foriving us another day. Use thismoment to be e reminded of your presence c1 tap the resoces needed by the members of this peos house to do their work as w as it upon those torn nation and upon the members of this assembly who struggle to see the shared hope for a Better Future in those withwhom they disagree. Fo many americans, the holy season of lent begins tomorrow d foreheads are marked this as men andwomen and as a reminder of your power to thrugh our failures all this day and through the week, may our representatives do teir best to find solutions to pressing issues facig our nation. Please hasten the day when justice and love shall dwell in the hearts of all peoples and rule the affairs of the nation
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Have the real possibility, unfortunately a high probability, that consequences would be vast multiples of the base case. Instead of just being severe, in addition to being severe, in the long run it would become catastrophic. We can expand on that in our conversation. Secondly, i said to a friend of mine the other day who is a wellknown new york this newsman this businessman that i had developed an intense concern about this. He said we can deal with this decades done the road. I said no, the reason, as many of you know, the decay rate of Greenhouse Gases in the atmosphere is hundreds of years. What we do today will affect us for hundreds of years. Theyre cumulative, they are irreversible, and as a consequence, this is an issue that cannot wait. As hank paulson observed to me the other day, if you look past over the cap past 10 years and see the predictions climate scientist have made, they bring forward the timeframe when the severe consequences occurred. This is an issue that we have
And hope that the allies come along with us. And are willing to fight on behalf of this cause understanding what our own limitations are. A lady in the back there. And this will have to be pretty close to the last question. Having been Senior Adviser and tactical instructor to the u. S. Marine corps on counterinsurgency in both iraq and afghanistan, one of the things that struck me most is we say the right thing as one of the gentleman on the podium said. We very rarely are seen to be doing the right thing. Very often that is manifest in the socalled experts we have sent to particularly around but to some extent in afghanistan and iraq where there are lots of experts with no expertise, confined to mega bases and many cities and dont really know what we are dealing with. We need to be within a community, those that have grudges, grievances, and frustrations. Sadly, we have abdicated that role either being unwilling or unable to tackle how communities think and deal and the vacuum and av