I thank my good friend, the leader, for organizing this Special Order hour and especially for his steadfast leadership of the Regional Leadership Council. What I love about Steny is that his whole focus on this is about implementation, but…

God, it was fun doing that again. I used to be him. Now I am me.

I do not like to waste my money. I do not like the waste of the taxpayer money.

Any time. Thank you for those very thoughtful questions and good responsive answers.

I think agencies like NOAA, like the CDC and others can be very helpful in building heat literacy at the local level.

I have had the privilege of representing Delaware, which is about 90 minutes away by train from Wilmington to Washington.

We need to break those patterns that we have been locked into and be strategic and thoughtful how we do so.

That does not diminish at all the importance of this hearing, so we are deeply grateful for your participation.

This summer's widespread extreme heat has been really staggering, including a month... of temperatures over 110 degrees in your own city of Phoenix.

I am told that something like 30 percent of the greenhouse gas emissions that we are creating in this country comes from the cars, trucks, and vans that we drive.

I am proud that our Committee has played a leading role in the enactment of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act.

Both of you mentioned the PROTECT Program that we created in Congress in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

I am going to telegraph a pitch. I have a couple of questions to ask of you.

As I have said more than a few times in this room, climate change is an issue we can no longer afford to ignore.

We really need to work on interagency cooperation between all of our Federal programs.

We must not succumb to the poisonous politics of difference and division, we must never allow ourselves to be pulled apart by petty manufactured grievances. We must continue to stand united.

I am the last Vietnam veteran serving in the U.S. Senate, and the President is about to leave this weekend to go to Vietnam.

I could not agree with you more.