I believe the Trump administration's retreat puts the health and safety of our communities at great risk.

President Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris Agreement is unjustified and dangerously shortsighted.

It abdicates U.S. leadership on global climate action--an issue where America has always been a leader.

We cannot hide from the mantle and the accompanying responsibility of being the greatest nation on Earth.

The United States, for example, committed to reduce its emissions by 26 to 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.

But that takes Congress getting serious.

If anyone thinks it is too difficult to achieve, they should say so and push for a different target.

The ingenuity of the Paris Agreement is that it builds from the bottom up.

Mr. President, I heard Leader McConnell knocking the Green New Deal. I would ask the leader--and we are going to keep asking him and every Republican in this Chamber--what they would do about climate change, about global warming. So…

Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor the 175th anniversary of Dominican independence and the birth of the first country I call home. On February 27, 1844, the founding fathers of the Dominican Republican, great statesmen and lovers of…

As the President claims, there is a national emergency on the southern border, he is ignoring what I believe is a national emergency in his own back yard.

I represent Brooklyn, as our chairman introduced me, where in 2012 we saw the impact of climate change first hand when Superstorm Sandy devastated my district and, going forward, will only get worse.

I appreciate you saying that you are prioritizing it. I am concerned that we will not be able to do that if so many resources have been stripped from the State Department.

Over a hundred countries place restrictions on the types of jobs that women can hold so this Initiative's emphasis on eliminating these barriers to participation and creating more enabling environments is a worthwhile one.

I am concerned that a 24 percent across-the-board cut is not only irresponsible but dangerous to our national security.

I am concerned that decoupling refugee programming from the diplomatic efforts of the State Department... will reduce the effectiveness of U.S. diplomacy on refugee issues.

I would just ask that your office stay on top of this.

How does the State Department intend to target the critical issue of women's economic empowerment while cutting fundamental women's health and education programming?