Sheldon Whitehouse Calls Out The Hypocrisy Of The Increasingly Farcical "Climate Solutions Caucus"
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Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), speaking Wednesday at a renewable energy policy forum sponsored by the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) in Washington, referred to the House Climate Solutions Caucus as the “do-nothing caucus” for its inability to propose any form of climate legislation. Whitehouse’s comments mark one of the few times that a member of Congress has criticized the caucus.
“I do think that it is important on all of us that we not grade the House so-called climate caucus on too much of curve. At some point, they really need to do something,” Whitehouse said in response to a question from a member of the audience about the caucus. “Resolutions are nice, but this is an actual, physical problem in the chemistry and atmospheric science of our planet. And resolutions don’t affect any of that.”
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R.L. Miller, co-founder of Climate Hawks Vote, a grassroots-funded group that supports candidates and elected officials it identifies as making climate change a top priority, said Whitehouse “nailed the problem at the core” of the House Climate Solutions Caucus. “Carlos Curbelo seems to have been too busy promoting the tax scam/drilling the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to write a bill that actually reduces global warming,” Miller said in a statement emailed to ThinkProgress. “He’s created a meaningless caucus being used as political cover by vulnerable Republicans like Mimi Walters and Scott Taylor. If he truly wants to stand for solutions, he’ll listen to us and terminate the caucus.”
Rep. Walters (R-CA), who joined the caucus last fall, has a League of Conservation Voters scorecard of only 5 percent. She is considered one of the most vulnerable House Republicans up for reelection this fall as is Rep. Taylor (R-VA), who also joined the caucus in 2017.
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https://thinkprogress.org/senator-whitehouse-criticizes-climate-caucus-273a5a500ec2/