So CUTE! Small # Of House GOP Want To Allow Military To Study Global Warming (Liz Cheney Opposed)

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The Republican-led House Armed Services Committee took a quietly momentous step Wednesday by passing an amendment requesting a Defense Department report on the security risks posed by climate change.

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For years, Republicans in the House passed amendments to try to block this work, but the Senate never approved the measures. Langevin and other supporters weren't expecting to gain Republican votes, but after a series of Democrats spoke in favor of the amendment, Rep. Rob Bishop, a Republican from Utah, chimed in.

"Whether the first four pages are accurate or not," he said, referring to a series of quotes by Mattis and others and a list of projected climate impacts, "there's nothing dangerous about talking about it. This asks for a report. I'll support the idea of having a report."

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) spoke against the measure, but several of her Republican colleagues joined Bishop, and the measure passed on a voice vote. The committee had already included other language in the bill supporting the department's work on climate change and requiring a separate, narrower report on the flooding from rising seas at military installations.

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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/28062017/miltary-base-flooding-sea-level-rise-congress-republicans-order-report

[Squinch]

1. LOL. And yesterday a few of them floated the idea of taking the billionaire tax breaks

out of their bill to kill all poor and middle class people through health care.

They're like the coneheads, trying to copy the humans around them, but not really getting it right.

[Jim Lane]

2. On Earth we have global warming, but apparently Hell has frozen over.

I guess it's predictable that, when Republicans finally acknowledge at least the possibility of global warming, it would be in this context: consequences to the military. Well, I'll take it.