Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a group of students squared off over climate change in a sometimes tense exchange captured on video and shared on social media.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U. S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a group of San Francisco Bay Area students squared off over climate change in a sometimes tense exchange captured on video and widely shared on social media.
The 15-minute video of the impromptu Friday meeting captures the students and Feinstein debating the merits of the Green New Deal, an ambitious Democrat plan to shift the U. S. economy from fossil fuels to renewable sources such as wind and solar power.
The students passionately urged the California Democrat to support the legislation. But Feinstein, a 27-year veteran of the Senate, argued that the legislation had no chance of passing the Republican-controlled chamber.
« That resolution will not pass the Senate, and you can take that back to whoever sent you here and tell them, » Feinstein responded after the students insisted the legislation was badly needed.
