Jared Huffman

I want to thank you first for acknowledging that the climate threat is real and that we need to address it.

Simply taking away some of these subsidies.

Wouldn't it be devastating to Russia's global influence if we were to lead the world toward clean energy and dramatically reduce dependence on the one thing Russia has, fossil fuel?

Whenever we talk about doing something the fossil fuel industry doesn't like, we hear this trope that, oh, we are going to lose our energy independence and we will have to go on bended knee to Putin and the Saudis.

In fact, I just checked my phone, and today, right now, on a peak summer day, California is running 50-percent renewables right now.

It is complete bunk. And all of us were cheapened a little bit...

We are also using the built environment to generate a lot of renewables these days.

I had hoped for a productive conversation about climate solutions and the great economic upside of pursuing this clean energy future.

We have a better environment through developing and dispatching renewable resources.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. My friend across the aisle who is so concerned about not having environmental policy in the NDAA certainly showed no concern in prior years when bad environmental policy was made against protections…

I believe during your time at the Department of Energy, you worked on efforts to identify West-Wide Energy Corridors...

I am coming to you from Northern California where the lights are actually on in my house, and it is an amazing thing because that is happening with 100 percent clean energy here in Marin County.

I think we have a moment right now to really consider the voices of minority and tribal communities, how they have been disproportionately impacted by harmful fossil fuel pollution.

I think we have a series of recent decisions involving pipelines that highlight the reality that impacts on local communities, as well as basic economics, are contributing to the movement away from these dirty destructive fossil fuels.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. I am excited, Mr. Speaker, because the people's House is at work this month. I wish I had more than 1 minute to talk about it all. Police reform, equal justice, lowering healthcare costs, protecting…

we are trying to weather a deadly pandemic that has killed over 110,000 Americans. This is no time to put the interests of partisan politics above common sense and basic public health protection.

But to use a broad brush, as this Administration used Lafayette Square, that everybody that was in that place and that Square were criminals, anarchists, and bent on destruction of Federal assets and attacking Federal police--in this…

And I think we should be very concerned about the creeping authoritarianism that is going on that is making the question that we are asking here today more and more relevant, and more and more urgent.

It sure appears as if the Park Police ignored their own legal requirements in the settlement to follow these procedures.

I am really grateful to you and your staff and your leadership in choosing to do a deeper dive into this subject.

This is the way real non-partisan oversight of a serious subject ought to go.

It troubles me that so many observers have reported sexual harassment, and surely there are a lot more who have experienced it and not bothered to report it.

I appreciate that. But in terms of the number of personnel, wouldn't you agree that the numbers we are talking about are not a lot to stand up a prevention and response program for over 12,000 employees, plus all those affiliates that we…

Clearly, NOAA is starting to make some positive changes.

It seems to me that we all agree that the safety and well-being of employees... should be the highest priority at the agency.