{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://web.archive.org/web/20141206080059/http://gosar.house.gov/press-release/case-you-missed-it-rep-gosar-spearheads-action-against-obama%E2%80%99s-lopsided-climate-change", "In Case You Missed It: Rep. Gosar Spearheads Action against Obamas Lopsided Climate Change Deal with China", "2014-11-24", "2014", "2014-11", "Republican", "House", "AZ", "Paul Gosar", "G000565", "web.archive.org", null, null, "legacy", "WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Congressman Paul A. Gosar, D.D.S. (AZ-04)\u00a0released the following statement after spearheading a letter to President Barack Obama, signed by twenty of his Congressional colleagues, calling on the president to rescind\u00a0\u00a0the recent U.S.-China joint announcement on climate change:\n\u201cThe president\u2019s continued efforts to unilaterally mandate his far left environmentalist ideology have taken a turn for the ridiculous. The international community is laughing at the United States for believing that China, one of the world\u2019s largest global economic powers, currently building one coal-burning energy plant almost every month, would actually adhere to a climate change agreement that would harm their growing economy.\n\u201cThis non-binding agreement would destroy thousands of U.S. jobs, increase electricity rates for American families and U.S. manufacturers and cause more American jobs to be displaced overseas. Asking our major economic competitor to merely consider making a commitment to cap carbon emissions at a point some 16 years in the future, while making major U.S. concessions that will do little to nothing to reduce global carbon emissions, will have\u00a0disastrous repercussions for America.\n\u201cThis deal does not help our planet, cripples our economy and supports China\u2019s efforts to overtake the U.S. as the world\u2019s leading economic superpower. This substantially flawed and lopsided agreement should be immediately rescinded.\u201d\n\n\t\tBackground:\nThis unbalanced agreement allows China to increase their greenhouse gas emissions without restrictions until\u00a02030. At that point, China is supposed to consider capping their greenhouse gas emission levels and consider making other minor concessions. In exchange, President Obama, without the consent of the U.S. Senate, agreed that the United States will reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by at least 26 percent by 2025 from 2005 levels.\nThe Congressional Research Service estimates that the Obama Administration has spent $77 billion from FY2008 through FY2013 studying and trying to develop global climate change policies.\nThe full text of Congressman Gosar\u2019s letter to President Obama can be found\u00a0HERE.", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://web.archive.org/web/20141206080059/http://gosar.house.gov/press-release/case-you-missed-it-rep-gosar-spearheads-action-against-obama%E2%80%99s-lopsided-climate-change"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9732351172715425, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}