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WASHINGTON, DC, January 3,2019 (ENS) – Climate change was front and center as California Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi was today re-elected to a second term as Speaker of the House of Representatives. Democrats took control of that branch of government from Republicans after the mid-term elections.
Pelosi previously served as Speaker from 2007 to 2011. First elected to the House for California in 1987, Pelosi represents California’s 12th congressional district, which consists of four-fifths of the city and county of San Francisco.
Speaker Pelosi lost no time in expressing her determination to put America back on track fighting climate change – a battle that President Donald Trump derailed, instead denying the facts of global warming and opening new public lands and waters to fossil fuel extraction.
“We must also face the existential threat of our time: the climate crisis – a crisis manifested in natural disasters of epic proportions,” said Pelosi in her acceptance speech.
“The American people understand the urgency. The people are ahead of the Congress. The Congress must join them,” Pelosi said from the speaker’s podium.
“That is why we have created the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis. The entire Congress must work to put an end to the inaction and denial of science that threaten the planet and the future,” Pelosi said.
“This is a public health decision for clean air and clean water; an economic decision for America’s global preeminence in green technologies; a security decision to keep us safe; and a moral decision to be good stewards of God’s creation,” Pelosi declared.
