Nuclearian Loc: I live in a Fascist, Liberal State

Congressional Republicans were able to put an end to a hearing on c*****e c****e organized by Democrats after only two members of the majority showed up.

The scheduled Natural Resources Committee hearing on climate denial was part of a "month-long series of hearings on c*****e c****e" put on by Democrats in their opening weeks in the majority. Despite the stated urgency of the c*****e c****e issue by Democrats, only two members of their caucus showed up, which allowed Republicans to call for and easily win a v**e to end the hearing before it even got started.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R., Texas), who called for the hearing to be adjourned during his opening statement, told the Washington Free Beacon he motioned for the hearing to end because its subject matter was outside the jurisdiction of the subcommittee on oversight and investigations.

"Most of the hearing involved subjects clearly outside the jurisdiction of our Natural Resources subcommittee," Gohmert said. "In fact, most of the Democrats found it so far down their priorities that they did not attend."

"When even the bulk of the Democrats would not attend the hearing, it made no sense to continue the hearing about matters our committee was not allowed to fix, so I made the motion to adjourn," Gohmert explained. "It passed because most Democrats did not attend."

A spokesperson for committee Democrats did not respond to an inquiry into why a majority of its members decided not to attend the hearing.

Scheduled to appear before the committee were a retired football player to speak on head injuries, an expert on opioid addiction, a resident of Puerto Rico displaced by a hurricane, and a professor on climate denial.

Gohmert said these were all "exceedingly important issues," but argued that wasn't the issue.

"While traumatic brain injury from contact sports, labor standards, occupational safety, and the opioid crisis deserve congressional scrutiny and are exceedingly important issues, our committee had no jurisdiction over them, meaning this hearing was all about politics and nothing at all about legislation that would fix any of these problems," he said. "Our committee has very significant problems within our jurisdiction which are matters we should have been working on together."

Gohmert recognized during his opening remarks that c*****e c****e may pose problems for many Americans, but took a shot at Democrats for getting behind the radical and costly "Green New Deal" rather than proposing real solutions.

"I don’t think there’s any denying that we should seek practical policies to help reduce pollution and promote good environmental stewardship without destroying the budgets of the average American household or our national economy at-large," Gohmert said in his remarks. "The ideas of eliminating cows or air travel are not promising starting points."

peter11937 Loc: NYS

Fact is that the SUN causes c*****e c****e. The SUN has energy cycles and our orbit around it is not a perfect circle, so the energy we get varies in cycles that cause change, not Water Vapor or CO2. We can no more control climate than we can control the weather

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

But AOC said . . . . . . . !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We need to redistribute our wealth so the others of the world cna take those graciously given billions and trillions and use them to change the climate, and we don't even need any type of verification that the billions and trillions were actually used for that!!

Tug484

It would take the GDP from every country to pay for this and it's still not enough.
Their brain never thinks past their ideas.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

To me, since I don't think CO2 concentrations effect atmospheric temps, it would be a monumental waste of time. We could eliminate all carbon emissions, go totally agrarian, no more cars or planes, factories, etc; zero CO2 emission and the climate would still change and the warming would continue, until the cooling began! LOL!

But hey, it might be a more peaceful world, or not! We could learn the ways of the force, relearn the secret of steel! Burn some bay leaves, stroll to the tune of the lute, tend sheep. Just imagine the possibilities if we just turn back the clock! Nah!

Tug484

I read of all this takes place the temperature difference would only change by .14.
We learned that plants take out bad air and change it into good air in fifth grade.
Maybe we need more plants and trees and fewer parking lots.

nwtk2007 Loc: Texas

Absolutely!