"I think the work of this committee is significantly overdue. This is a scientific, health, political, economic, national security, environmental, and moral issue."
"As far as the heavy hand of the federal government, I would like to remind my colleagues of the tens of billions of dollars that we subsidize fossil fuels with each year."
"The real question, in my mind, is whether Americans will be using clean energy technologies that are developed here, that are researched, developed, deployed here, with American jobs and American inge..."
"If we got a handle on homelessness in Southern California, the number of homeless veterans in this country would reduce exponentially. That is the epicenter."
"I am a proud Californian. And in regard to the claim that any measure being discussed would increase oil imports in California, I would remind my colleagues that my state has made an overarching commi..."
"One of my concerns about the Administration's headlong rush to start drilling in the Arctic is the climate impacts of creating an entirely new oil and gas field out of a wilderness."
"Climate change is affecting the Arctic greatly. Please consider the climate impacts of oil and gas exploration in a wilderness. How is climate change impacting you?"
"How do you expect us to bear these burdens of adaptation--because in the Arctic we are well beyond the point of mitigation--if you erode our ability to fund these projects ourselves?"
"The Administration is rushing an environmental impact statement on an oil and gas leasing program: is the impact statement correct in its findings?"
"We need to be absolutely clear that any aid is there to ease the Venezuelan people's suffering, not to make them pawns in political ploys."
"I think we all agree how important it is to listen to scientists when developing public policy, particularly in an area like this where certain industries may have an outsized influence."
"I find that hard to believe, seeing as it is such a significant change in policy, to allow sounds up to 160 decibels in the Atlantic but not in the Gulf."