Honorable Lamar Alexander
United States Senator, Tennessee, Republican
Senator Alexander was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992. He serves on the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. The following is excerpted from an October 29, 2009, Senate floor statement. As I said on Tuesday when the bill was presented, I have no problem acknowledging the problem, but I do have a problem with the proposed solution. The National Academies of Science of 11 major industrialized countries, including the United States, have said that climate change is real and that humans are causing most of the recent warming. If fire chiefs with the same reputation said my…
