The presiding officer are there any senators wishing to vote or wishing to change their vote . If not, the ayes are 53, the nays are 45. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the nomination. The clerk nomination, the judiciary, randolph d. Moss of maryland to be United States district judge for the district of columbia. The presiding officer under the previous order, there will be two minutes of debate equally divided prior to the vote on the motion to invoke cloture on the may nomination. A senator mr. President . Mr. Leahy i ask consent all time be yielded back. The presiding officer is there objection . Without objection all time is yielded back. Mr. Leahy i withhold that request. I yield back my time on this side. The presiding officer the senator from georgia is recognized. Mr. Isakson on behalf of myself and is senator chambliss from georgia the presiding officer the chamber will come to order. Mr. Isakson we would like the senate to look favorably. We could appreciate y
Vote mr. Whitehouse mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from rhode island. Mr. Whitehouse thanks, mr. President. May i ask unanimous consent that the pending quorum call be terminated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Whitehouse thank you very much. Mr. President , im here for the 90th time to urge my colleagues in the senate to take action on Climate Change. The science is clearly worthy of our trust and it is, indeed, time to wake up. The human contribution to Climate Change is no longer up for legitimate debate. We know that Carbon Pollution accumulates in the atmosphere. We know that Carbon Dioxide traps the suns heat. Weve actually known that since Abraham Lincoln was president. We know that the atmosphere and the oceans are heating up. We can measure that. Ocean acidification and Sea Level Rise are also measurable and they are caused by Carbon Pollution. These risks to our environment to our health to our economy and to our National Security are every we
Surprised that we have the longest coastline of any state save for alaska. And when it comes to beaches, the state of florida by far has more beaches than any other state. But because we have so much exposure to the oceans the atlantic on the east, the gulf of mexico on the west we are particularly subject to Climate Change that the earth is heating up. Now, why is the earth heating up . Well, there is the effect known as the greenhouse effect, and what this is, if you put certain gases into the atmosphere that are as a result of manmade efforts so, when we burn things like oil and coal and we dont scrub out a lot of the stuff, it goes into the atmosphere well, one of the things that goes into the atmosphere is Carbon Dioxide. And what Carbon Dioxide does is it goes up into the upper atmosphere, and it forms this greenhouse effect by creating an invisible shield that what happens when the sun rays come and strike the earth at daylight, those rays then reflect off the earths surface, an
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