Mr. Chairman, may I inquire how much time we have on both sides? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 7 minutes remaining, and the gentleman from Kentucky has 12 minutes remaining.

Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I want to point out that the speakers in favor of this bill describe themselves as part of the coal-producing regions of the country. They are representing, they think, the…

Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from West Virginia (Mr. Rahall).

Mr. Chairman, the previous speaker said that heating oil prices are going up, energy costs are going up. Well, if they are going up, it is not because of what President Obama has done by regulation because he has not adopted any…

Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, Kofi Annan, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations wrote in The Washington Post earlier this year: Climate change is the biggest challenge of our time. It…

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding to me. The truth of the matter is no matter how many votes the Republicans cast to repeal the Affordable Care Act and no matter how many distortions they spread about the law, there are…

Mr. Chairman, House Republicans are telling us greenhouse gas emissions are falling in the United States. They suggest the U.S. doesn't need to do anything more about climate change, but they couldn't be more wrong. A couple of years ago…

Mr. President, Sunday was a perfect Chicago afternoon-- not in terms of weather, which has not been too kind to us lately, but in terms of my events and schedule. My first stop was at Navy Pier for the Lithuanian Independence Day…

I announce that the Senator from Colorado (Mr. Udall) is necessarily absent. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 58, nays 41, as follows: [Rollcall Vote No. 56…

Madam President, Debo Adegbile has the keen intellect, life experience, and knowledge sufficient to be an excellent assistant attorney general. What an American story we find in his life. The son of Nigerian and Irish immigrants, he worked…

We need to find solutions to stop this dangerous pollution and put this gas to productive use.

The flaring of a valuable and finite natural resource is nothing less than a market failure.

I still believe the subcommittee should hold a hearing to get the facts regarding flaring, and to develop real solutions to the problem.

We need to look at the infrastructure that is going to be coming out of the Pennsylvania/Ohio/West Virginia stuff that is going to be able to take care of the Midwest.

Every responsible business executive in the country knows that there will be no certainty in energy policy until we address climate change.

Far too often methane, a potent greenhouse gas, leaks into the air during the production, processing, and distribution of oil and natural gas.

We have a rapidly diminishing window to act to reduce our carbon pollution before the catastrophic impacts of climate change are irreversible.

We need to prepare our infrastructure to withstand climate related disruption.