Posted on 03/09/2014 5:23:23 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Senate Democrats are about to burn the midnight oil to make their case on climate change.
The previously rumored all-night session on the effects of climate change will take place Monday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse confirmed.
“It’s locked in,” the Rhode Island Democrat told CQ Roll Call. “An all-nighter is an all-nighter. We’re going to go all the way through to eight or nine in the morning or whenever they need to clean it up for the next day.”
That would clearly meet the established definition of an all-night session.
Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and Whitehouse are coordinating the campaign.
Whitehouse has given weekly floor speeches when the Senate’s been in session for well over a year now, a series he’s dubbed “Time to Wake Up.”
The Rhode Islander is also heading to Iowa, where he wants environmental policy to be an issue at the state’s key caucuses in 2016, the Des Moines Register reported.
This is directly inspired by Ted Cruz’s all-niter last year, clearly Democrats were impressed by that and all the coverage he got, and now want to copy his move.
Of course, it won’t work, it’ll just be a pale rip-off of the original, just like when they tried to copy the success of The Tea Party with “the Coffee Party”.
In his first department-wide policy guidance statement since taking office a year ago, he told his 70,000 staff: "The environment has been one of the central causes of my life."
"Protecting our environment and meeting the challenge of global climate change is a critical mission for me as our country's top diplomat," Kerry said in the letter issued on Friday to all 275 US embassies and across the State Department.
"It's also a critical mission for all of you: our brave men and women on the frontlines of direct diplomacy," he added in the document seen by AFP.
He urged all "chiefs of mission to make climate change a priority for all relevant personnel and to promote concerted action at posts and in host countries to address this problem."
The clarion call comes ahead of key UN-led talks in Paris next year when the international community is due to try to set new emissions goals for greenhouses blamed for global warming........."
OK!! Everybody pay attention!
Lesson for today:
1. The sun is 1,300,000 times as big as the earth.
2. The sun is a ball of fire that controls the climates of all its planets.
3. The earth is one of the sun’s planets.
4. The earth is a speck in comparison to the size of the sun.
5. Inhabitants of the earth are less than specks.
Study Question: How do less-than-specks in congress plan to control the sun?
Will this be on C-Span?
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