Scott Peters

I am appearing before the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis to discuss the Energy Sector Innovation Credit Act.

The Rural Green Partnership is a framework of principles and policies to both combat climate change and spur economic growth.

Tackling the climate crisis is both a moral and economic imperative.

We need to make smart decisions based on science, not politics.

Simply put, the cost of inaction on climate change is already having a staggering impact on our national security.

As vice chair of the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, I know that climate change is one of the most forefront national security threats of our time.

This is why the House invested in expanding climate research and protecting our public lands and our natural resources.

We all know that climate change will have devastating effects on economic inputs, from agriculture to healthcare to infrastructure.

Great challenges like sending a man to the moon, or winning a world war against tyranny, or fighting climate change to save the planet are won with national unity and consensus.

We need to work now to save this planet.

It is not responsible for us in Congress to pretend that a one-party, nonbinding resolution... is the answer to this question.

This is above all an emergency, and not just any emergency. This is the biggest crisis humanity has ever faced.

We need to tackle that now.

We cannot get to where we need to be without dramatic and substantive policy change.

The level of effort to try to defeat this hearing, even the truth for coming out, I think is pretty discouraging.

This Oversight Committee... is one of the three committees dealing with impeachment directly.

Yes, bipartisan would keep us from getting--it would help--some of my folks on the far left are very concerned we are not including enough drugs, and on the far right, you know, we are taking some other countries' standards for our own.

In Oregon, where I am from, we have a list of prioritized services that medical experts, not politicians like me, get to talk about what's the most cost effective, what's the best value, how we should go about things.

But I think you should definitely be taking a look at the VA approach to setting rates because they do negotiation and they've been doing it for many years and you, the Congress, authorized them to do it very successfully.

I urge you to work with Republicans on more practical solutions.

We don't need a Big Government solution for everything.

Let's change the narrative and put progress before politics.

I have got to write language that says this is an incentive to get your business to invest.

Emissions from industrial sectors account for over a third of global carbon emissions and just steel, cement, and basic chemicals account for a little more than over half that total.

The Department of Homeland Security has a mission, and that is to keep me and you, my fellow Americans, safe from terrorist attacks.