"Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) took to the floor this [Thursday]  morning to challenge his Republican counterpart to admit the realities of climate change in the latest rhetorical shot in the chamber's 'Green New Deal' fight.

'Today, I am issuing a challenge to the majority leader,' Schumer said on the Senate floor. 'I don't do this often, and my colleagues know that I would rather work in a bipartisan way on climate change. But his stunt — his cynical stunt — demands a response.'

Schumer added, 'I challenge Leader McConnell to say that our climate change crisis is real, that it's caused by humans, and that Congress needs to act.'"

Jeremy Dillon reports for Greenwire February 14, 2019. [2]