"For the record, the MAGA extremists in the House who were essential to McCarthy's speakership have said that nothing less than the Default on America Option will pass."
"my hard earned experience tells me that when the Republican Party acts on pollution related and corruption related issues, the Party acts as the glove for fossil fuels dark hand."
"default in the service of extremism is a place we should not be going"
"It would be fair to describe that as crashing the American solar industry."
"The Default on America Act doesn't even protect veterans healthcare, one of our fundamental obligations to the men and women who put their lives on the line for our country."
"Make no mistake, it doesn't matter who you vote for, what state you live in, or what you make. If House Republicans get their way it is going to make your life worse."
"Frankly, I think the American public is appalled that they are looking at CEOs of Silicon Valley Bank getting $10 million, walking out with even more in terms of stock, and nothing can be done."
"It comes as no surprise that a bill from House Republicans, of whose 315 pages, 275 are dedicated to handouts to the fossil fuel industry, would if implemented, also crash their competition, the solar..."
"House Republicans have armed the default hand grenade, and pulled the pin, and have it in their hands, threatening to blow it up with all of the consequences that each of you have forecast, and the qu..."
"If we end up going into this Republican threatened default, and all the pain and calamity that all of the witnesses have forecast comes to pass, people in America are going to want to know who is resp..."
"if this default is provoked by what looks like a desperate last attack on clean energy competition by a massive polluting, and heavily political industry, that will come back to them."
"What House Republicans have voted for is one massive gift to the Chinese government because guess what? Our competitors are not debating whether to pay their debts or wreck their economy."
"275 out of 315 pages of the dirty Default on America Bill are devoted to giveaways to the fossil fuel industry."
"What is in plain view in the House Default on America Act is 275 out of 315 pages that are giveaways to the fossil fuel industry."
"We've raised it under divided Congresses and under unified ones."
"They seek to cause chaos."
"On Monday, Leader Schumer, along with Senators Murray, Wyden and I introduced a two page bill to stave off default through the end of 2024."
"MAGA Republican's dangerous bill poses a terrible choice."