me i rank up there as one of the scariest moments as a young parent the day that i learned the waxman markey bill was not going to be called up for debate in the senate, thus effectively ending for the time being congress' participation in this exercise that as i think senator boxer pointed out everyone in this world has been engaged in in the private and public sector. the idea that the body that i sat in wasn't going to do anything about the fact that by the end of the century at a moment when i hope either or both my 3-year-old and 7-year-old are going to still be on this earth, global temperatures will be six to ten degrees higher, sea levels will be 7 to 23 inches higher, as many as a million species on the planet today when they're 3 and 7 that won't be on the plan ent in their final days of life. that was a scary day. but i took some solace because the primary argument that i heard from opponents of the united states congress' unilateral action was that we shouldn't move forward on something as ambitious as waxma waxman-markey in the absence of serious commitments from developing nati

. >> so, going back to 2009, when the waxman/markey bill was passed through the house of representatives and died here in the senate, but for a while there, people thought my first name was waxman, as part of the waxman/markey bill, but it was going to reduce greenhouse gases by 80% by 2050 and 70% by 2020. those were the goals. and it was a radical group of people who signed onto it. i mean, a completely radical group. general electric. general motors. chrysler. ford. the edison electric institute endorsed the bill. the nuclear energy institute endorsed the bill. company after company, all across the country, endorsed the bill. when you have the big three auto manufacturers and the edison electric institute endorsing a bill to reduce greenhouse gases by 80% by 2050, you're no longer in the radical extreme. it's those who oppose it who are in the radical extreme. you have the world's scientists all saying that there is a great danger. and john holdren is now saying that there is a destabilization in the west antarctic icecap. and there's 1,000 miles long and 300 miles wide, and pretty mu

for a while people thought my first name was waxman, as part of the waxman-markey bill. but it was going to reduce greenhouse gases by 80% by 2050 and 17% by 2020. those were the goals. and it was a radical group of people who signed onto it. i mean, a completely radical group. general electric. general motors. chrysler. ford. the edison electric institute endorsed the bill. the nuclear energy institute endorsed the bill. company after company, all across the country, endorsed the bill. when you have the big three auto manufacturers and the edison electric institute endorsing a bill to reduce greenhouse gases by 80% by 2050, you're no longer in the radical extreme. it's those who oppose it who are in the radical extreme. you have the world's scientists all saying that there is a great danger, and john holdren is now saying that is a destabilization in the west antarctic ice covering that, if it went into the ocean would raise sea levels by five feet, that there is an increase in destabilization on the greenland ice cap. that's a thousand miles long and 300 miles wide. an

so going back to 2009 when the waxman/markey bill was passed, for a while people thought my first name was waxman, but it was going to reduce by 80% by 2050 and 70% by 2020. so those were the goals. and it was a radical group of people who signed on to it. general electric, general motor, chrysler, ford, the edison electric institute endorsed the bill. the nuclear energy institute endorsed the bill. company after company all across the country endorsed the bill. when you have the big three endorsing a bill to reduce greene house gases by 80% by 2050, you're no longer in the radical extreme. it's those who oppose it who are in the radical extreme. and there is an ice covering that if we went into the ocean would raise sea levels by 5 feet, that there is an increase in destabilization on the green land ice cap and that's 300 miles wide and pretty much two empire state buildings high. that that would add another 7 feet to the sea levels of our planet. so the radicals are those that say don't worry. but you can't get a are more conservative group than intel and dupont and dow an general el

the third was the warner-lieberman bill, then we had the waxman-markey bill that we never even got the vote on because nobody was going to vote on it. what they failed to be able to do legislatively, they're not trying to do through regulation. that's why a c.r.a. is significant because it does force accountability. now, let me make one other statement. this thing about parris that's going to take -- paris that's going to take place in december, this is the big party that the united nations puts on every year. this is the 21s 21st year that they've done this. i can remember when they did it in 2009. that was going to be copenhagen. and we sent -- we didn't send, but they sent several people went over there. at that time obama was in the senate, hillary was in the senate, pelosi went. they went over wil there to tele same countries that we'll be meeting in two months from the 192 countries, went over to tell them that we were going to pass cap-and-trade legislation that year. that was 2509. i went over at -- that was 2009. i went over after they had given their testimony there. went all

the third was the warner-lieberman bill, then we had the waxman-markey bill that we never even got the vote on because nobody was going to vote on it. what they failed to be able to do legislatively, they're not trying to do through regulation. that's why a c.r.a. is significant because it does force accountability. now, let me make one other statement. this thing about parris that's going to take -- paris that's going to take place in december, this is the big party that the united nations puts on every year. this is the 21s 21st year that they've done this. i can remember when they did it in 2009. that was going to be copenhagen. and we sent -- we didn't send, but they sent several people went over there. at that time obama was in the senate, hillary was in the senate, pelosi went. they went over wil there to tele same countries that we'll be meeting in two months from the 192 countries, went over to tell them that we were going to pass cap-and-trade legislation that year. that was 2509. i went over at -- that was 2009. i went over after they had given their testimony there. went all