security and climate change committee, congressman rangel of the ways and means committee and chairman petersen of the agricultural committee. we thank you for their leadership. madam speaker, no matter how long this congress wants to talk about it, we cannot hold back the future. in order to move on with the future, i want to yield back my time, i submit my statement for the record and urge my colleagues to vote for this important legislation. when you do, remember these four words for what this legislation means jobs jobs -- jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. let's vote for jobs. >> the house then went on to pass the energy and climate change bill. dara in samuelson joins us on the phone. what did the democrats have to do? >> they were working the hallways and the house floor. president obama called members and invited members to the white house. you had the people who wrote this bill going one by one and member by member to try to convince them that what they had passed out of the committee was a bill that had taken their interest into account. it was a microcosm of the larger house. a lot of conces

this is like chairman rangel on trade issues comet chairman petersen on agricultural issues among others. the legislation we have before this is the most important energy and environment legislation to ever have been considered in the history of the united states. the consequences for our country in our great. -- are great unless we act to deal with these issues. this legislation sets a new course for our country, creating millions of new clean energy jobs while reducing our dependence upon imported oil. when it becomes law, and it will come for the first time in the history and the united states congress, for the first time in the history of our country, we will put in forceable limits on global warming pollution. at its core, this is a job bill. it will create millions of new jobs that are clean energy. there are whole new industries with incentives to drive competition in the energy marketplace. it sets ambitious and achievable standards for energy efficiency and renewable energy from solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, so that 2020, 20% of america's energy will be clean. it saves consu

the petersen automotive museum in los angeles hosted this event that is 45 minutes. >> i want to thank you all for coming today two this book signing. i am the director of the museum here. this is really an honor for me personally as well as a museum because i have been reading p.j. o'rourke for ever it seems, at least 30 years, maybe 35. i thought he was only sand. this guy really can write. nobody else knows about him but me. i read all this stuff and i am like a lot of you, keep up on the politics and i am a national review subscriber and washington times subscriber and all of that. his writings in playboy and rolling stone and all of that in a political nature is pretty interesting, pretty well-rounded writer when it comes to -- one i love most is his your reverence in the way he turns of phrase in the way he writes. honest to god it, just because he is here, by far he is my favorite author and i have all his books. the first part of this book and lists all the books that he has ridden and i think three or four of them are new york times best-seller books. if you ever read parliame