Will you please join Representative Juan Vargas, who represents the border area with me, and me in San Diego soon to see this tragedy for yourself?

These Americans are counting on you and me to fix it.

I appreciate working with you, because I know in your heart you are about helping the environmental justice community.

This is about the decisions and actions of the powerful affecting the health and well-being of the powerless.

You cannot disassociate our environmental health with our public health and individuals' health.

Military deployments are very expensive, and that is why I am pleased that so much of our discussion today has focused on ways to confront China without those deployments.

I support this legislation in principle.

Our relationship with China reminds me of 120 years ago and the conflict between a rising Germany and a status quo Britain.

Tens of millions of gallons of raw sewage, human and chemical waste... are flowing down through the Tijuana River.

We are eager for your leadership.

we have got no standing to complain about executive actions whoever the president is until we have thoroughly cleaned up our own house.

I am a Republican. I am a conservative but I am a black man who has experienced harassment and being pulled over and stopped by police and wants to get this on President Biden`s desk.

it`s just an opportunity to exhale and to relax, especially after four years of somebody who spent every day of his presidency trying to foment racial division.

the administration has been very clear they want it done. They want it done quickly.

it was an uplifting presentation. I love the way he connected climate to jobs.

we need an American approach, and we need to play the long game.

By not ratifying that agreement, we are in a weaker position to hold the Chinese to these rules.

What we want to do is compete based on a rule of law.