"Coming from Rhode Island, offshore wind is not a hypothetical for us; it is a reality."
"We held a hearing warning about wildfire risk and this month the Smokehouse Creek fire in Texas, the state's largest fire ever, burned more than 1.2 million acres."
"A new report by the non-partisan government watchdog, the GAO, found that the industry is shirking important but expensive decommissioning responsibilities."
"There is something quite painful about going back to a place you have loved and finding it changed for the worse."
"The fact that the climate emergency is one that Republicans and fossil fuel polluters would prefer not to talk about doesn't make it any less real."
"We held a hearing warning about sea level rise and storm impact on property values driven by uninsurability and we are witnessing the property insurance market circling the drain in Florida."
"The focus needs to be on our most vulnerable communities, not Big Oil's profits."
"So, when Big Oil walks away from its responsibilities, American taxpayers could be left holding the ballooning of the debt and the ballooning billion-dollar bill."
"I have noticed that some of my colleagues don't seem to care very much about impacts on marine life when we are talking about offshore oil and gas, only when we are talking about offshore wind."
"We had that wonderful moment in the previous State of the Union when the President talked about Republicans who wanted Medicare and Social Security cuts and they all rose in unanimous opprobrium to sa..."
"The President's Medicare proposal would ask that those at the top 1 and 2 percent to pay 1.2 percent more into Medicare."
"There is simply no better communicator of complicated budget procedure and arcana than you."
"Creating a safe, prosperous, and fair nation: Those are our values."
"Tax cuts simply do not pay for themselves."
"If that's true, the only other way to ensure long-term solvency is making the wealthy chip in more."
"My Medicare and Social Security Fair Share Act would implement the Medicare tax proposals in the Biden budget and ensure that Medicare can pay out 100 percent of Medicare benefits indefinitely."
"The Biden budget is a proposal for how to reduce deficits by investing in our families and communities."
"when the Chairman of Finance wants to talk about healthcare reforms, we're all ears."
