S.Amdt. 114

SA 114. Mr. COONS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2 proposed by Ms. Murkowski (for herself, Mr. Hoeven, Mr.
Barrasso, Mr. Risch, Mr. Lee, Mr. Flake, Mr. Daines, Mr. Manchin, Mr.
Cassidy, Mr. Gardner, Mr. Portman, Mr. Alexander, and Mrs. Capito) to
the bill S. 1, to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline; which was ordered
to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING CLIMATE CHANGE.

It is the sense of Congress that--
(1) climate change is real and is caused by human
activities;
(2) climate change is already impacting the United States
with sea level rise, ocean acidification, and more frequent
and intense extreme weather events such as droughts, floods,
wildfires, and heat waves;
(3) climate change poses risks to multiple sectors of the
economy of the United States, including national defense,
agricultural systems, energy, and transportation, as well as
human health and the environment;
(4) the impacts of climate change have significant economic
costs that will occur year after year and increase with
further delays in global action;
(5) the extent of future climate change is largely
determined by the choices the United States and other nations
make in the immediate future;
(6) the Federal Government, tribal nations, States, local
communities, and the private sector must continue to take
action to prepare and adapt communities to climate change;
(7) the United States has a responsibility to children and
future generations of the United States to mitigate the
harmful effects of climate change;
(8) the actions of the United States taken to mitigate and
adapt to the impacts of climate change cannot come at the
expense of the prosperity of the United States;
(9) the actions of a single nation cannot solve the climate
crisis, so solutions that address both mitigation and
adaption must involve developed and developing nations around
the world;
(10) investing in the development of innovative clean and
renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies will--
(A) enhance the global leadership and competitiveness of
the United States; and
(B) create and sustain short and long term job growth; and
(11) the United States should act immediately to address
climate change because the longer the United States waits,
the more severe and costly the impacts of climate change will
be, and the harder it will be for future generations to
address the crisis.
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