I urge the committee to support this bill that would allow Medicaid reimbursements for doulas and midwives to combat maternal mortality among the nearly two million on Medicaid giving birth each year.

I urge you to encourage deployment of smart meters and other technologies which make our electric grid more responsive and capable of supporting distributed energy resources.

I am working with several of my colleagues on legislation to set a nationwide goal of 100 percent clean energy economy by 2050.

Improving energy efficiency and transitioning from fossil fuels to electricity are keys to a clean energy future.

This will protect public health and our environment, create millions of jobs, and mitigate the impacts of climate change for all communities and all generations, especially those disproportionately impacted.

they broke it, they broke the agency.

Alaska needs the help of a fully engaged federal government. Washington cannot turn its back.

Removing a civil servant from his area of expertise and putting him in a job where he's not needed... is a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars.

So, in your opinion, what will be the impact of that office no longer having anyone there, much less any scientific leadership that sounds badly needed for those people, those Americans living in Alaska?

I rise with my colleagues to talk about this urgent issue that faces us: climate change. Climate disruption is an existential threat to our planet--an existential threat. Scientists recognize this, so do the American people, and so does…

I have been stepping up to make sure that we are able to close these divides across the country and make use of spectrum as well.

Can I get a commitment today, Mr. Chairman and Mr. Knapp, that we can work together to raise this issue...

I have also repeatedly heard concerns that 5G networks may not reach rural and Tribal communities for years.

I stand in support of equal pay for equal work and in celebration of the women's national soccer team. The team's World Cup victory highlighted a stark reality: There is still work to be done to ensure equal pay for the same work. Last…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of my amendment requiring reporting on human rights in Brazil in light of the Bolsonaro administration's dangerous actions. President Bolsonaro has said he wants to…

This administration's reckless behavior threatens to plunge the region into chaos and our own country into another endless and costly war. We have powerful, peaceful tools to bring other countries to the negotiating table. Under the…

let me, at the beginning, thank Senator Carper for his incredible leadership on the Environment and Public Works Committee. He has a very good bill on cleaning up PFAS. I have signed on to it, and I am going to talk about some of the…

America must live up to its values, and that means treating transgender servicemembers with the same respect and dignity as their counterparts. Both of my parents served and only judged their fellow servicemembers on one standard: their…