
A lot of my colleagues are honorable people. I just think they’re in a political pickle on this one.
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A lot of my colleagues are honorable people. I just think they’re in a political pickle on this one.

I am hoping that as you look at the problem of large scale emitters, whether they are industrial emitters or utility emitters, you will take a look at carbon capture technology.

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The yeas and nays are ordered. Under the previous order, the question is, Will the Senate advise and consent to the…

We would really like to see the questions answered. Where we have been stonewalled on questions in the prior Administration, we would like that backlog of questions cleared.

You would be coming into an agency that in my view was more or less captured by the fossil fuel industry.

Did the president of the United States acquit his constitutional responsibilities when he sent a mob, an inflamed mob, up to the Capitol, for the purpose of their disrupting the orderly counting of the electoral votes?

I am reintroducing the Stop Subsidizing Multimillion Dollar Corporate Bonuses Act with Senators Blumenthal, Whitehouse, Merkley, Baldwin, Warren, Van Hellene, and Brown. This legislation fully closes a loophole that has allowed publicly…

Chair Capito and I, who have rather different views about climate issues and fossil fuel emissions and so forth, have worked together along with a lot of other colleagues in a very bipartisan support for carbon capture technologies.

You don’t have to know who hit Officer Sicknick in the head with the fire extinguisher to know that Donald Trump failed at those duties.

Yes. While Trump was a flamboyant offense to democracy, there was also this creeping insinuation of dark money into our political system. and it is probably just as dangerous as Trump`s flamboyant excesses.

I have been asking the FBI and the Department of Justice from the beginning to treat this as a kind of investigation where you do the work of looking to see who is behind it. You follow the money, you look at the groups, the follow…

today I am introducing legislation to address the decades of underinvestment in our Nation's libraries by reinstating Federal support for library construction. Libraries are essential community institutions that give the public access to…

among the many barriers to safely bringing students, teachers, and staff back to school for in-person instruction is the condition of school facilities. A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that over half (54…

I rise today to pay tribute to a beloved figure in the Senate community, the late Barbara A. O'Malley, who passed away on January 6. For three decades, Mrs. O worked in the office of our former colleague, Senator Barbara Mikulski of…

I am particularly glad to see the senior Senator from New Mexico presiding on what, for me, is a sentimental moment, because he has been such a terrific friend and colleague and advocate in the battle of climate change. I am here today…

Thank you, Senator Inhofe, for your courtesy for coming to say those words. I truly appreciate it.

You are the Hank Aaron. You are the Roger Maris. So I appreciate it and thank you.

Nature keeps sending us messages about what is happening out there. And in Washington we continue to ignore those messages. But they keep on coming.