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Studies have proven that with every $1 invested upfront, we can avoid $4 to $11 dollars in disaster damages.

assuming that the adoption of electric vehicles will save the Postal Service money in the long run, does USPS have the financial resources to increase its percentage of electric vehicles?

Madam Speaker, I rise to applaud my colleagues for passing the Affordable Insulin Now Act, which will lower costs for hardworking families by capping the out-of-pocket costs for insulin at $35 per month. This legislation is about putting…

it blows my mind that the U.S. Postal Service is taking such, you know, infinitesimal steps toward electrification

Building-in mitigation has been a bipartisan priority of this Committee.

So, why would we invite people we don't agree with to evangelize views and values that we don't share at the National Defense University?

the U.S. Government should be giving the Postal Service more billions of dollars to acquire batteries that, literally, come from the Communist Chinese Party

So, now that you know that they did this, would you agree that embracing socialism is not an effective strategy to combat China?

I certainly hope the majority staff doesn't delay the sharing of its contents with the American people.

Natural solutions that sequester carbon should also be central to any plan to achieve net-zero emissions.

Coasts and marines also huge opportunities for resilience in carbon abatement.

Healthy forests are less likely to burn uncontrollably.

last year alone we had twenty climate-fueled disasters that caused at least $1 billion in damages.

Now when we think about natural climate solutions, we are talking about a few types of key systems.

when you consider that really the only emission reduction strategy that also provides resilience benefits that can cost-effectively save lives, it even becomes more absurd that we don't focus on it more.

the average acre of wetlands can hold more than 1 million gallons of water.

Methane is a potent greenhouse gas and is responsible for about 30% of global warming in the modern era.

We need robust Federal rules to find and repair leaks from both new and existing sources, including marginal wells, and we need to end routine venting and flaring, which wastes energy and harms the public health.