What valid purpose is served by creating crimes at the Federal level if they duplicate crimes being effectively enforced by the States?
When it comes to criminal law, only those matters that cannot be handled by the States need to be addressed by the Federal Government.
Like you, I believe important structural reforms to the program are necessary.
I am not suggesting that this is a program without instances of abuse.
I do not think that is advanced in a material way by the topic we are addressing today.
Yet despite public statements supporting democratic changes, the military-led government has failed to carry out many basic reforms that wou...
Do not be deterred by the polluters and their Republican allies in Congress who attack the proposal.
We as responsible Members of Congress should not be basing public policy on eccentric fringe views.
A recent Washington Post ABC news poll found that 70 percent of other public supports Federal standards to limit carbon pollution.
No, not at all. And Republicans and Democrats that I come across are worried about climate change and the impacts.
A lot of what my colleagues have been saying during the course of this hearing, I believe, has only looked at one side of the ledger.
There is no greater environmental threat today than climate change.
I do a climate speech every week on the Senate floor, at least every week that we are in session.
EPA took a critical step forward in this fight when it exercised its existing Clean Air Act authority.
EPA's mission to protect human health and the environment is one of the most fundamental and popular responsibilities of the Federal Governm...
The benefits of the Clean Air Act, according to a 2011 EPA assessment, will outweigh its costs by a ratio of 30 to one.
The American people are behind you and counting on EPA to stand strong against the polluters.
I was down in Florida not too long ago touring the coasts, where climate change is really undeniable, sea level rise is something you measur...
