Today I rise to commemorate the lives lost in the tragic shooting rampage on the streets of Santa Monica and at Santa Monica College. On June 7, Samir Zawahri, Chris Zawahri, Marcela Franco, Carlos Navarro Franco, and Margarita Gomez lost…

Today the Speaker of the House, not the presiding officer at the moment, but the Speaker of the House, John Boehner, made some irresponsible remarks about climate change. He was asked about the reports that the President is prepared to act…

I support this amendment. We've seen natural disasters from droughts to heat waves to floods affecting farmers from coast to coast because of the climate change issue. We spend billions of dollars on crop insurance subsidies to cover the…

What about setting a carbon cap or putting a price on carbon? Would that provide clean energy investors with greater certainty about the purpose and direction of our energy policy?

The United States pioneered many of the clean energy technologies being deployed around the world today, but in 2012, China attracted more clean energy investment than any other country.

Well, the BioWatch program has been plagued by technical and management problems, and I hope you and your team have put these problems behind us so that the program can move forward.

To protect taxpayers, DHS officials have now put the acquisition on hold until all the necessary steps are taken.

But that doesn't mean that the program cannot be repaired. In fact, progress is already being made.

At today's hearing, we will focus on the export of liquefied natural gas and coal.

All of these values which the Corps is charged with protecting are threatened by climate change.

Before billions of dollars are spent building new coal export facilities, we need to understand the impacts of those exports.

This last week, the International Energy Agency came out with a very important report about climate change. They said that if we don't act soon, we are going to see extreme weather events--droughts, hurricanes, all sorts of flooding, real…

There is no bigger threat to navigable waters than climate change.

They have asked you to examine this issue, yet you are telling us you won't do this.

I think the Corps is making a big mistake.

Economic modeling of this emissions effect shows that emission increases would be substantial.

Climate change is the biggest energy challenge we face.

Last October, the Los Angeles Times reported on the failed deployment of BioWatch Generation 2.5.

The L.A. Times, however, has brought other issues to light.

Our commitments to energy efficiency and to clean energy and to transportation choices are working.

The single biggest source of the emissions causing climate change is China, specifically burning coal in China.

Turning from that strategy to coal exports would be a tragic and abrupt reversal from that successful strategy for the Northwest.

Please examine all of the relevant impacts carefully, rigorously, transparently, and comprehensively, including climate effects.

Prescription drug abuse is a serious and growing problem in America.

I am a fan of the Sierra Club in that it has done a lot of good things for America and protecting our environment.