It seems to me that it's fairly elementary economics that the negative externalities of a product ought to be included in the price of the product.

Like public health? Like people not dying of cigarette-caused cancer?

President Biden and his Administration restored America's standing on the world stage and helped unite NATO and the West to provide Ukraine with the help they needed to protect their country and stand up to authoritarianism.

They are worried about the economy. They are worrying about getting guns out of our schools.

Our response from the Republican side of the aisle is total silence on this.

The Republican response to gun violence, as Mr. Jeffries said a little while ago is basically in the witness protection program.

Let's not hold them to a higher standard than we hold ourselves because that is exactly what this hearing is about.

So a good Good Neighbor Rule will pay huge dividends.

One of the things that I find very tiresome is how the State of Rhode Island has difficulty defending itself against out of State pollution.

I can recall, to your point, driving into work and on drivetime radio hearing the local announcement that today was a bad air day in Rhode Island.

Republicans are choosing the Second Amendment over second graders.

The public is already starting to recognize that. These hearings, these so-called investigative hearings which are chasing after nothing...

These investigations they are conducting, the Weaponization Committee they created, rather than deal with real weapons...

Why don't we ask the oil and gas companies that made over $300 billion of profits last year to chip in to help solve the climate crisis that they have profited from?

And do you also agree that if we don't do anything, if man-made climate change continues unabated, that the problem is likely to get worse?

Climate change is contributing to water scarcity.

I believe members of this Committee have called climate change a hoax or a scam.

Yes, I think that is an important point, that we stick with this principle that the average person not see increases under a system for fear of pricing.