Bernie Sanders Forces Republicans to State Their Views on Climate Change
▻http://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/01/14/bernie-sanders-forces-republicans-to-state-their-views-on-
With Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell promising an open debate on the #Keystone_XL pipeline bill, Senator Bernie Sanders, the maverick Independent from Vermont, has crafted a beauty of an amendment. He plans to offer a “sense of Congress” resolution in the debate asking each senator if he or she agrees with “the opinion of virtually the entire worldwide scientific community” that climate change is a factually proven problem resulting in “devastating problems in the United States and around the world.”
[...] The Sanders amendment confronts what lately has been the classic answer from Republican politicians trying the shave the issue: “I’m no scientist.”
“Okay, but what do you think as a senator?” is effectively Mr. Sanders’ follow-up question. No I’m-glad-you-asked-me-that essay answers, please. An aye or a nay will do, on the record.