Congress: Democrats take to House floor to decry lack of funding for climate research

House Democrats typically don't have a great deal of success trying to get things done under GOP control, but a handful want you to know they tried, yesterday, to highlight what they see as "the importance of funding climate research ." Oregon Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Jared Polis, along with other members of the House Sustainable Energy & Environment Coalition, tried to amend a commerce, justice and science appropriations bill to boost National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate research. "The...