House Democrats Held The First Climate Change Hearings In Six Years. It Was A Mess
10:12 PM 02/06/2019 | Energy
Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor
House Democrats held the first hearings on global warming the chamber has seen in six years.
The hearings, though, weren’t the serious policy debates Democrats may have hoped for.
Rather, the hearings relied on testimonies from climate activists and even religious leaders.
Top House Democrats finally got their wish to hold the first hearings on global warming in six years Wednesday, but both committee hearings meandered into discussions of civil rights, race and apocalyptic warnings without much talk about science.
The House Committee on Natural Resources hearing started off with testimony from Govs. Roy Cooper of North Carolina, a Democrat, and Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, a Republican — both of whom support liberal climate policies.
During that time, Utah Rep. Rob Bishop questioned whether or not the climate hearing broke committee rules. Bishop, the committee’s ranking Republican, also wondered why the committee held a hearing on an issue outside its jurisdiction.
“Are these hearings simply for those of us around the horseshoe who are going to make legislation, or are these hearings designed for that group sitting at a table in the corner so they can write cute stories?†Bishop asked, pointing to where reporters sat in the hearing room.
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