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Senators Pull All Night Talker on Climate Change

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Senate Democrats staged an all-night talk-a-thon on climate change for nearly 15 hours Monday night.

Still, their leaders made it clear they don't plan to bring a climate bill to the Senate floor this year.

"Climate change is real, it is caused by humans, and it is solvable," Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, said.

Republicans largely stayed away from the event and many Democrats who face tough re-election fights avoided the debate.

The talk-a-thon came just a few days after the Republican-controlled House passed a bill aimed at the Environmental Protection Agency.

The measure would block the EPA's plan to fight climate change by imposing strict regulations on new coal power plants. However, that bill likely won't get a vote in the Senate.

"Tonight is not about a specific legislative proposal,"  Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I. said. "It's about showing the environmental community, young people and anyone paying attention to climate change that the Senate is starting to stir and we want to get some actions going."

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