I ask that I be notified when I have 30 seconds remaining. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Chair will do so.

It is great to have a fellow New Englander nominated for this important post.

This program is really vital, yet last year the Department announced changes in the formula that was used to determine eligibility for the REAP Program.

This is ridiculous. This is not--the format is not dictated by law. This is arbitrary.

We are talking a lot today about the cost of transition. We also have to talk about the cost of not transitioning.

The low-hanging fruit of climate change prevention is methane, and most of the methane comes from unregulated oil and gas drilling.

It should not have taken legislative language in an appropriations bill to get the Department to prioritize the needs of disadvantaged students.

If we are talking about six to eight feet of sea level rise in the next century, that is a catastrophe, both a human catastrophe and an economic catastrophe.

It was an excellent meeting. And we`re very appreciative that, as his first official meeting in the Oval Office, the president chose to spend so much time with us in a frank and very useful discussion.

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I wouldn't say that we came together on a package tonight. No one expected that in a two-hour meeting. But what we did agreed to do is to follow up and talk further at the staff level and amongst ourselves and with the President and Vice…

I ask unanimous consent that upon the conclusion of morning business on Tuesday, February 2, the Senate proceed to executive session to consider the nomination of Calendar No. 5, Peter Buttigieg, of Indiana, to be Secretary of…

I believe that nuclear development has a low carbon future in this country, but I am reluctant to support significant new development until we meet that promise.

We have to be thinking about a strategy of protecting and transitioning people to a different economy in a hurry.

I hope you do that analysis, because we now have applications for, the last time I looked, more than half of the domestic production of natural gas for export.

I want to join my colleagues in thanking Senator Murkowski. Senator, you have done a wonderful job as Chairman of this Committee.

The most serious threat to the domestic price of natural gas is unfettered exports.

Somebody asked me my priorities on energy and I said, it is storage, storage, and number three is storage.