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Transcripts For CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20140117

Thank you, madam chair. On want to get gavelled on. Well, you have 28 more seconds if you wish to continue. No. I will get some credit out of you. Oh, need your credit, thats true. Now were going to complete this first panel, which started a very long time ago, seems like yesterday. And were going to do it this way. Im going to give senator whitehouse take my two minutes. Senator vitter okay . Senate inhoff, senator sessions and then ill close. Everybody has two more minutes, okay . So lets start with senator whitehouse. Ill just take a little bit of my time to respond to senator sessions suggestions that one scientist says that Climate Change isnt really happening and that there really isnt an association with storms. And i just want to put that into context. There actually is a Peer Reviewed Scientific Consensus o ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20140117

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 ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20140121

2,600 homes came from our own facilities. Gsa is also working to improve our partners understanding of their energy use as directed in the december 2013 president memorandum on federal leadership on energy management, gsa is partnering with the department of energy and epa to prepare a Green Button Initiative that will increase our partners ability to reduce energy consumption, reduce greenhouse emissions and meet sustainability goals. Taken together these efforts have led to a significant reduction in the energy use intensity. In fy 2013, gsa reduced energy usage per square foot by 20. 8 ahead of statutory targets. Since 2011 these reductions saved 192. 7 million in avoided costs. Also in fy 2013, gsa achieved an approximately 50 reduction in Greenhouse Gas emissions, exceeding our 2020 target. This amount of energy we no longer use is enough to power over 60,000 ho ....

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