I do not understand why it would not be germane. It is an environmental bill in front of the committee right now, and this is an environmental amendment to the bill.

I think you have caused my friends on the left to go to their safe spaces, and I would love to explore with you a little bit of the reason for that.

obviously, we think there's something that is being withheld or covered up, but until we actually see it, till you release it, till a court orders it, we are not going to know; it is going to be all supposition on our part.

On balance--thank you for that answer.

Okay. It would be very helpful to have that data because it would be quite informative in terms of the steps that perhaps you all would continue to take or perhaps new steps that might be necessary.

We cannot allow for hate to be normalized in our Nation, and we cannot sit idly by.

our former colleague and now Governor Jared Polis has announced that he is not going to seek an exemption for that

I see through the prism of being a young father and making sure that she inherits a world that is perhaps better than the one that I inherited.

the administration has continued to propose drastic cuts to climate research funding and to make remarks that are blatantly false.

The conversations we have now, the decisions that we make today will decide the quality of life for the witnesses.

Climate change is the existential threat of our time that we must begin addressing immediately.

I think of the, you know, recent EPA rollback of the MATS rule. And I think that 100 percent of their livelihoods are in danger because of this.

But addressing these impacts starts with an acceptance of science.

The IPCC determined that we have 12 years to ensure that the increase in global temperature remains below the threshold.

the Sunrise Movement, that have pushed for significant action to move the needle against climate change by pushing for the Green New Deal.

later today, the majority leader will use the so-called nuclear option to once again break the Senate rules. This is going to be the latest episode in a series of decisions that have been made around here--mostly by the majority leader but…

I will work with you to make sure that the action plans that are formulated are carried out, and we will continue our oversight in the future.

I can tell that the specificity is there, the metrics, the harnessing of incentives, the re-education or better education down to the garrison level...