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As a result of the worldwide Section 232 steel and aluminum tariffs, which my colleagues have all mentioned today, the European Union is said to double retaliatory tariffs to 50 percent on certain imported products, including recreational…
During the first month under the new tariffs, however, live lobster exports to China declined by 64 percent.
The Maine lobster industry has been hard hit by the 25 percent retaliatory tariff that China imposed on the U.S. lobster industry in 2018.
Before the tariff, China was the second largest importer of U.S. lobster, purchasing $128 million worth in 2017.
Your predecessor made real progress by securing a commitment from the Chinese to match or exceed their pre-tariff purchase levels.
We obviously prefer domestic sources, but when domestic sources can't meet the demand, as is the case right now, and prices are so high, we desperately need a new agreement to be negotiated so that we're not involved in imposing under…
In addition to the need to expand telemedicine so those 83,000 Maine households have access, is there also a benefit--
More Mainers died of drug overdoses last year than died from COVID. We set a new record of 502 Mainers who died from drug overdoses.
I totally agree with Senator Burr's comments that we need to make this a permanent part of our healthcare structure.
We've taken care of the problem for the vast majority of family-owned businesses or ranchers in the country.
We need to make sure that parents have choice and thinking about family childcare as a integral part of our--the fabric of our childcare system, especially in rural communities, I think is really important.
During the past years, in the midst of the pandemic, the YMCA has really stepped up to the plate.
Shouldn't we be talking more about how to reskill and reemploy those jobs rather than trying to change the direction of where the economy is headed?
So you would urge us to vote yes on this resolution to restore the direct regulation?
The major transition was from coal to natural gas. Your state benefited from that and this guy's state didn't benefit.
We support the direct regulation of methane just for the reasons you said, that it is very potent and we need to have regulation in place to ensure that we have adequate controls throughout the industry.
What I am most interested in is timing. We are in a race and we are in a race that we are losing right now.
Do you think that, when we are talking about capture, that by the time that capture technology is cost-effective, we will be out of the fossil fuel, at least in the electric generating business?