President Obama announced this weekend that the House has passed the so-called "climate change bill" -- a sweeping piece of legislation that aims to curb global warming, radically reduce pollution, and generally move the United States -- and by extension, the planet -- toward a greener future.

The bill passed narrowly, with a vote of 219 over 212, and eight Republicans voted in its favor. This didn't prevent Minority Leader John Boehner from reading large portions of it aloud on the House floor, not because he supports the bill, but because "people deserve to know what's in this pile of shit."

Fortunately, Boehner's opinion is the minority one (pun intended). Though the majority may be small in this case, it was large enough to squeak the legislation through. President Obama spoke optimistically about the changes we can expect to see as a result of this Congressional move in his weekly address: