(CBS/AP) Former Vice President Al Gore called a House proposal to curb greenhouses gases blamed for global warming one of the most important bills ever in Congress.
Gore, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on global warming, testified Friday before a House panel. In testimony prepared for delivery, Gore said the legislation will simultaneously solve the problems of climate change, the economy and national security.
The former vice president described the bill as "one of the most important pieces of legislation ever introduced in the Congress," and said it has the moral equivalence of the post-World War II Marshall Plan and civil rights legislation in the 1960s.
He predicted passing it would "restore America's leadership in the world and begin, at long last, to solve the climate crisis." - CBS News Story
If a single bill can do all of that, why in the heck have we passed all these darn stimulus bills and massive budgets? This one bill would have solved all of it and the money could have been spent on this instead.
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