'Look at the flooding in the Midwest,' Sen
“Look at the flooding in the Midwest,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand said Tuesday morning, her voice growing hoarse. “Lives were lost.”
The vote, widely seen as a bid by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to divide Democrats and slow the Green New Deal’s momentum, comes a week after a “bomb cyclone” ripped through the Midwest, unleashing biblical flooding in parts of Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin and Missouri. The floods caused billions of dollars in damages, stripped farmland of fertile soil, killed at least three people and left two more missing. Now the region is bracing for more rainfall and flooding.
On Tuesday afternoon, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee , whose own presidential bid is focused exclusively on climate change, called for Senate leaders to “hold hearings to listen to the victims of climate change ― from the ongoing floods in Iowa, Nebraska and Missouri to the wildfires that have burned through California, Colorado and the rest of the West, to the hurricanes that have hit Puerto Rico, Florida, Texas and North Carolina.
Over the past few months, the emergence of the Green New Deal as left-wing Democrats’ climate clarion call has shifted the long-stagnant debate over greenhouse gas emissions in the United States dramatically leftward. The resolution, which Sen. Ed Markey and Rep.
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