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The Scoop on Al Gore |
This person is a complete mystery!
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| Former Vice President of the United States. Democratic nominee for 2000. Potential nominee for 2008. Former Vice President Al Gore is Chairman of Current TV. He also serves as Chairman of Generation Investment Management. Al Gore is a member of the Board of Directors of Apple Computer, Inc. and a Senior Advisor to Google, Inc. Al Gore is a Visiting Professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Al Gore was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1976 and served four terms. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1984 and 1990, and was inaugurated as the 45th Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1993. |
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Congress 102, Senate vote: Vote 270: H R 11 - 10/08/1992 04:00 AM Question: On the Conference Report.
Bill: H R 11
Vote description: Conference report; Revenue Act of 1992 Taxpayer Bill of Rights Social Security Amendments of 1992
Result: Agreed to, 67-22, with 1 voting Present and 10 not voting.
Albert Gore voted Not Voting.
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Congress 102, Senate vote: Vote 269: H R 11 - 10/08/1992 04:00 AM Question: On the Conference Report.
Bill: H R 11
Vote description: motion to waive cba @ conference rept to h.r.11; Revenue Act of 1992 Taxpayer Bill of Rights Social Security Amendments of 1992
Result: Agreed to, 60-29, with 11 not voting.
Albert Gore voted Not Voting.
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Congress 102, Senate vote: Vote 268: On the Cloture Motion - 10/08/1992 04:00 AM Question: On the Cloture Motion.
Category: Cloture
Vote description: cloture motion on conference report on h.r.11; Revenue Act of 1992 Taxpayer Bill of Rights Social Security Amendments of 1992
Result: Agreed to, 80-10, with 10 not voting.
Albert Gore voted Not Voting.
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Investing in the climate
On Thursday, I spoke to more than 500 financial leaders and institutional
investors at the third UN/CERES Investor Summit. The attendees were
searching for ways to confront, from the perspective of the financial
sector, the shift to cleaner sources of energy and away from carbon
businesses are sure to face in the coming years.
I told the audience they need to reexamine their investment portfolios,
because currently they are full of subprime carbon assets  businesses to
reliant on carbon intensive energy.
Financial advisors and investment managers will need to focus on the
long-term solutions to the climate crisis in order to be successful. An
important step they can take, is signing the Investor Network Action Plan.
Financial managers controlling over $1.75 trillion in assets signed this
document, unveiled at the conference. It lays out principals by which these
investors cannot only help solve the climate crisis, but also see the
rewards in the form of financial profits.
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Poverty and Climate Change At Davos
A few weeks ago in Davos, I shared the stage at the World Economic Forum with Bono, who has provided inspirational leadership in the battle against extreme poverty in the world. Tom Friedman, who moderated the session, asked both Bono and I about whether or not there is “competition� between our two issues, the climate crisis and global poverty.
In reality, we must expand our moral imagination and understand that the struggle against extreme poverty and disease on the one hand and the climate crisis on the other are linked -- we cannot solve one without simultaneously solving the other.
The Millennium Development Goals recognize this. And the historic challenge that Bono has been so effective in helping to lead, to lift the poorest of the poor out of poverty, can only be met successfully if the climate crisis is part of that discussion and taken into account as part of the solution.
Some of the programs for the world's poorest countries have already demonstrated how specific sustainable agriculture, disease eradication, micro-lending and other programs can succeed -- but just a one and a half to two degree increase in temperature, put all that hard work at risk.
The emergence and re-emergence of infectious disease, drought, increased risk due to storms and storm surge and other impacts of global warming could undermine all this hard work.
By the same token, it is only with a global compact that the world can solve the climate crisis and only with a global compact can the world truly help the poorest of the poor. But in order to reach these goals all nations need to come together. And we need to have a global treaty in place by December of 2009 that marries these two agendas.
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