It is costing families more and more to buy groceries, from eggs to the cost of bacon, to fill up our gas tanks.

It is an absolute disservice to the American people when Committee hearings and time are used solely to score political points.

In reality, this hearing is just another attempt to vilify this nation's most significant energy sector.

Fossil fuel companies aren't creating and spreading disinformation themselves--they are buying it. From public relations firms.

Fossil fuel companies want to convince Americans that Big Oil itself is part of the solution.

Fossil fuels are causing the atmosphere to heat rapidly, increasing the intensity and frequency of hurricanes.

This law is the biggest investment in clean energy in our nation's history.

Thank you, Madam Chair. And thank you to Chair Porter and Chair Grijalva for your leadership on this important issue.

I have been working on it with Chair Maloney. We have a hearing tomorrow to go over a lot of the misinformation that Big Oil has engaged in since the 1970s.

We must maintain robust domestic energy policies to allow ourselves and our allies to be energy independent.

I believe that we need a new law.

Mr. President, I rise to speak in support of legislation that I introduced today along with Senator Padilla to preserve the enduring legacy of California's giant sequoias: the Save Our Sequoias Act. I thank Senator Padilla for working with…

I intend to introduce legislation, look forward to working with the committee and with you and the other American shippers to make it clear that the cargo preference laws are the laws and that the ambiguity, confusion, and total disregard…

We need what I would call a national maritime security policy that would go beyond the subject matter of this issue.

We must write a new law. This simply has not worked. We are well into two decades of failure.

I thank the many Members of Congress who worked to authorize the medal--including particularly Congressman John Garamendi--for your leadership.

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. S. 4205, the Planning for Animal Wellness, or PAW Act, establishes a FEMA working group to determine Federal guidance on animal care during emergencies and natural disasters. We have…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. In closing, I urge support of this legislation, thank our colleagues for cosponsoring, and I yield back the balance of my time.