Jared Huffman

energy insecurity is a real problem. The question is, what do we do about it?

Yet, we won't see our colleagues across the aisle take that obvious step to confront energy poverty because they never go against the fossil fuel industry.

Breaching those dams requires an Act of Congress.

the common thread in all of these kind of whiplash experiences with our colleagues across the aisle is that whatever serves the interests of Big Oil and Gas is where they go.

It is essential that the Federal Government work with the tribes to ensure that the future management of the Columbia River is linked with the health and well-being of these impacted fisheries and of these impacted tribes.

It is long overdue to move past this failed situation and start modernizing the Federal Columbia River Power System so that it can actually balance ecological, cultural, and economic benefits across the region.

We are on the verge of losing iconic salmon runs. There are orca whale populations that will blink out if that happens.

the narrative that our Republican colleagues are suddenly champions for the poor... does require one to suspend a bit of disbelief.

we have achieved fossil fuel energy dominance in a big, big way. Yet, you would think we would have really cheap energy prices if that was the ticket to cheap energy.

The Federal Government has a legal and moral responsibility to honor the promises it made in treaties.

All of this end-of-the-world, nihilist hysteria is not only hypothetical, but not even possible, given the way this type of deal would have to come together.

It has always been my position that Congress, only Congress, can authorize the removal of those dams.

It is deeply inappropriate for Members of Congress to leak confidential documents in an apparent attempt to disrupt and sabotage ongoing negotiations.

There is something we should be shouting from the rooftops, and it is the fact that the status quo in the Columbia River Basin is not working.

I regret that I was unable to make the following vote. Had I been present, I would have voted ``nay'' on rollcall No. 705.

I do want to congratulate boosters of the fossil fuel industry, because the weekend before we went home for Thanksgiving with our families, the global climate surpassed 2 degrees Celsius.

Not only does this bill grant access to one of the most ecologically sensitive, unique, and, yes, difficult regions to productively drill, but it reverses significant strides by the Biden administration to protect lands that Tribal Nations…

It is an incredibly special landscape, and I wonder if you could just take a moment to remind us why protecting America's Arctic is so important to you.

And that is why I am proud to have led for the last several Congresses the legislative effort to permanently protect the Coastal Plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and I will continue to do that.

The outreach by this Administration has been atrocious, and I sincerely hope the Department actually listens to these voices.

It would just rubber-stamp all the different permits and approvals necessary, and off we go to develop fossil fuels without any Native consultation at all.

I have never seen this practice of a Chair, simply by fiat, giving himself the prerogative of an extra round of questions.

This is a very, very sobering moment for anyone that cares about the planet and future generations.

If you are going to actually try to protect the environment, protect some lands, they want you to run through the most robust, rigorous, impenetrable environmental process that anyone could conceive.

Where you drill, you spill.