Schumer on the Green New Deal Vote: ‘We Cannot Play Politics with Our Children’s Future’

‘I have a new grandson, I don’t want by the time he grows up the waters to be rising’

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SCHUMER: “I’m glad finally, though, the good news here, some of my colleagues are starting to see the light. Now they need — and admit that it’s real and admit that it’s caused by human activity. Now they need to put their money where their mouth is and work with us to take action that matches the scale of the problem. So, if our colleagues refuse to join us on a bipartisan basis in creating this select committee, we Democrats aren’t going to wait, we’re going to take action on our own. Later today we’ll be announcing our own path for going on offense on climate change, keeping a spotlight on this issue, and making sure that this chamber keeps debating the most urgent — this most urgent issue of our day. We cannot — we cannot play politics with our children’s future any longer. I have a new grandson. I don’t want by the time he grows up the waters to be rising, the climate to be changing, and the whole world totally discombobulated so he can’t live a good and happy life. We should all feel that way. And avoiding the problem, whether it’s because special interests are saying avoid it, Koch brothers and everyone else, coal industry, oil industry, it’s not serving our country well.”

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