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May 31, 2007
Reid: Administration Must Show Real Leadership On Global Warming
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid released the following statement today in response to President Bush’s call for a global greenhouse-gases emissions goal:
The Bush Administration's ‘head in the sand’ position on global warming has defied reason and common sense. For six long years, it has suppressed scientists and scientific evidence, undermined international efforts to find solutions and delayed implementation of a strategy to protect the long-term interests of the nation. It has failed spectacularly to show constructive American leadership at home or abroad in keeping with our moral responsibility to reduce the nation's massive greenhouse-gas emissions. We hope today’s announcement is the beginning of a reversal of the Administration’s untenable and unwise position on global warming and not a public-relations stunt to defuse criticism going into the G-8 discussions in Germany.
The Senate will convene at 2:00 p.m. and proceed to a period of morning business until 3:00 p.m. with Senators permitted to speak for up to ten minutes each. Following morning business, the Senate will resume consideration of H.R.3590, with Senator Reid, or designee, permitted to offer the first amendment to the Reid substitute; further, that Senator McConnell, or designee, be permitted to offer the next amendment to the substitute with no other amendments in order during Monday's session. There will be no roll call votes during Monday's session.
