Sen. Whitehouse, After Discussing Global Warming for 45 Minutes, Claims He’s Banned from Discussing It

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WHITEHOUSE: "The department of agriculture has e-mails showing how staff in their natural resources conservation service were coached by managers to avoid the term climate change and instead use other language. That's where we are. All of those facts, the motive behind it, the fingerprints of the fossil fuel industry, the confessions by participants in those schemes, and where are we? If this -- in this room, silence. Nobody will talk about it because the power of the fossil fuel industry is so strong the threats are so blood curdling that nobody dares. We cannot have a grownup factual discussion about climate change in this building either. And, of course, over in the Trump Administration they have completely thrown in the towel of the fossil fuel industry and now we're hoping to dodge the problem by forbidding people to use the word climate change. It is pathetic, Mr. President. With that, I yield the floor.."