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Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor and remember State Senator Maryellen Goodwin, a dear friend and public servant, who tragically passed away this week following a long battle with cancer. For almost 40 years in the State senate, Maryellen…
the Citizens United decision of the Supreme Court posited something that I have no disagreement with, which is, that if big political spending is not transparent, it is corrupting.
I ask you to pull up your socks, do your job, look at these 501(c)(3)s and 501(c)(4)s.
It looks to me like you are completely falling short, that you have vacated the field.
I ask you to pull up your socks, do your job, look at these 501(c)(3)s and 501(c)(4)s.
Political spending that is not transparent is corrupting.
the Citizens United decision of the Supreme Court posited something that I have no disagreement with, which is, that if big political spending is not transparent, it is corrupting.
Political spending that is not transparent is corrupting.
Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to this bill, which should be titled banning kids from school sports act. No group of kids should be banned from school sports, period. We all know what school sports are about. It is about…
It looks to me like you are completely falling short, that you have vacated the field.
I think it is extremely important that we decorrupt and derottenize our Tax Code.
Senator Whitehouse's proposal and his sponsored legislation shows one promising path forward.
Which they can put into a pricing advantage and crush small businesses with a pricing advantage that they only got by hiding revenue offshore?
If we allow companies and wealthy Americans to avoid paying taxes by going offshore, we can assume that they will follow that incentive.
I think there's an enormous opportunity here.
Building off of the success, Rhode Island is currently pursuing an additional procurement for offshore wind that will more than double this capacity and put our state on the path to 100 percent renewable energy by the end of this decade.
In Rhode Island, we know that a swift transition to clean energy is possible, that it can save costs for rate payers on their electric bills, reduce emissions, and create jobs.
The Inflation Reduction Act will enable more offshore wind and clean energy projects to come on-line and get us closer to the Biden administration's goal of deploying 30 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity by 2030.