Mr. President, in California, several counties and cities are suing the big oil companies to hold them liable for the damages that climate change is causing to the infrastructure out there. As judges consider these cases, one thing they…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Shimkus) for yielding me the time and his leadership on this issue, as well as my good friends Paul Tonko and Brian Higgins for joining me in the effort today in regards to the West…

We're going to get at the truth, and we're going to get the materials and the evidence we need to find out exactly what happened here and to hold this administration accountable.

We have a responsibility to gather evidence, to bring in witnesses, to make factual determinations, so that we can take appropriate action, as the Judiciary Committee.

If people are going to claim a reason not to produce documents or testify, they have to invoke a legally recognized reason to do that.

Madam Chair, I thank the chairman for yielding. Madam Chair, I would just point out in further support of Mr. Nadler's remarks, on average, 20 veterans commit suicide every single day in this country, and two-thirds of those suicides are…

Mr. President, today I am reintroducing the Cybersecurity Disclosure Act along with two members of the Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Collins, and the ranking member, Senator Warner, in addition to Senator Kennedy and Senator…

Thus, we strongly support the bipartisan Air Carrier Access Amendments Act, H.R. 1549, which was introduced in March 2019 by Representative Jim Langevin.

Mr. President, our Democratic leader has set three plain and very obvious questions about fossil fuel-burning carbon emissions and climate change that should be easily answered by every single Member of the Senate, and the fact that this…

Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that Senators Leahy, Klobuchar, King, and Tester be recognized in the next 40 minutes or so for a colloquy with me. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I will close out this colloquy by pointing out that the Republicans of 2007, 2008, and 2009 who were working on climate legislation before the Citizens United decision have left or died or gone to ground. It is sad to see. These…

Mr. President, let me thank Senator Klobuchar for her wonderful remarks, and of course Minnesota is a Northern State which sees this up close all the time. The Senator spoke of bipartisanship. Do you know who voted with Senator Chafee for…

I thank the distinguished Senator from Vermont, who is not only a towering physical presence on the floor of the Senate but a towering historic presence on this floor, as well, and brings a rare and valuable perspective. I appreciate his…

I thank Senator Tester. I will turn to the Rhode Islander who was in that early bipartisan effort to understand and address climate change. Senator John Chafee's history of service to his State and country was remarkable. He saw bloody…

These six U.S. Senators were troubled by testimony they had heard about climate change in three separate hearings of the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee. They wrote: The testimony convincingly portrayed a fundamentally…

Mr. President, it was 1986, a third of a century ago. Six U.S. Senators wrote a letter to the Office of Technology Assessment, the office then charged with providing technical and scientific advice to Congress. Mr. President, I ask…

Mr. Chair, we have a gun violence epidemic in this country. For 8 years, we have marked it with moments of silence and doing nothing, saying nothing and doing nothing. But today, that changes with passage of H.R. 8 for universal background…

Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding. We are on the precipice of passing the first commonsense gun safety bill in this Congress in 25 years. I have been here for 8 years. We begged and pleaded and had a sit-in to try to force…