Posted on 11/06/2019 4:57:19 PM PST by fproy2222
Mitt Romney joins bipartisan Senate climate change solutions group FILE - Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, speaks at the Sutherland Institute in Salt Lake City on Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, speaks at the Sutherland Institute in Salt Lake City on Monday, Aug. 19, 2019. SALT LAKE CITY — Sen. Mitt Romney has joined a bipartisan Senate group that aims to find answers to climate change.
The Senate Climate Solutions Caucus, led by Sens. Chris Coons, D-Del., and Mike Braun, R-Ind., consists of an equal number or Republicans and Democrats.
Romney said it would serve as a starting point for discussion about potential solutions for dealing with climate change.
Addressing climate change will take significant private sector investments and a major global breakthrough in innovation and technology, he said. Congress, he said, should explore ways to incentivize the research, development and deployment of clean technologies.
Lawmakers also need to consider solutions that will sustain communities that may be impacted by changes in energy technology, Romney said, adding he would continue to meet with rural and coal mining communities in Utah to hear their perspectives.
In a speech at the conservative Sutherland Institute in August, Romney said that while he doesn’t subscribe to the Green New Deal, calling it “silliness,” he is one of the few Republicans who he said believes in climate change and global warming, and that human activity is a significant contributor.
Much of the growth in emissions is coming from developing countries such as China, India and Brazil rather than the U.S, he said.
“You going out and buying a Prius might be well and good, but it’s not going to change global emissions,” Romney said. “What we’re doing here is the proverbial drop in the bucket.”
https://www.deseret.com/utah/2019/11/6/20952293/mitt-romney-joins-bipartisan-senate-climate-change-solutions-group
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“Mitt the Twit continues to prove he deserves the title Twit.”
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Wish Harry Reid would lend him his exercise equipment.
The Valachi Papers.....
Well maybe we should thank Obama for beating Romney...we probably would not have Trump now....
The GOP needs a new name....
And...Epstein did not kill himself.
Just be honest and switch to the Democrats, Mitt!
Well, if you're referring to the Mitthead types, maybe we can call them the GOOPY party (Goofy Oafish Obtuse Pinheads & Yahoos).
I actually put his sign in my yard during the election. Politicians are lunatics.
When I want to learn something technical, I always ask a politician.
NOT
"Congress, he said, should explore ways to incentivize the research, development and deployment of clean technologies."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
While Sen. Romney’s heart is in the right place, misguided Romney should have gotten himself elected to a state government, not the constitutionally limited power federal government and its likewise limited power to appropriate taxes.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
As a leader in his state government, Romney would be able to use 10th Amendment-protected state powers to experiment with his energy and environment-related ideas, ultimately depending on what his state’s legal majority citizen taxpayers are willing to pay for.
Justice Brandeis had put it this way about unique state powers to serve the people.
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose [emphasis added], serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” —Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
(Note that constitutional limits on states as laboratories of democracy is that states cannot establish privileged / protected classes or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must maintain a constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government.)
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA! Now KAG! (Keep America Great!)
Mitt...The ultimate cuckservative.
Thanks, Utah, for giving us this leftist creep as “senator-for-life”.
Willard is a collectivist.
Existing government programs tend to keep people unemployed - rural, urban or suburban.
Doesn’t matter if you’re a former coal miner or displaced IT worker.
Any news on how he feels about the Mormon family being executed in Mexico and the border wall and security? Thought so
The lefties would rather drink a quart of hydrochloric acid than vote for romney as their "savior".
You heard it here, second.
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