On the recordMarch 28, 2023
Let me first commend Ranking Member Raul Grijalva for fighting the good fight every day. I rise today to oppose the polluters over people act. It is an extreme MAGA Republican bill that will increase pollution by lowering environmental standards. It will increase climate change by removing a lot of provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act designed to combat climate change. It also increases the deficit. According to the Congressional Budget Office, it will increase the deficit by over $2.4 billion just on one bill alone. It is like a triple threat of badness. It increases pollution, it increases global warming, and it increases the deficit. Now, let's just take a review of what we have done up to now. Last term when Democrats were in control, we passed laws that moved the American family forward. We passed the American Rescue Plan that got our economy back on track as we were coming out of a pandemic. We then followed that up with the infrastructure law to rebuild roads, bridges, and highways; to take lead out of water pipes; and to put broadband everywhere from rural areas to inner cities and everywhere in between. We then followed that up with the CHIPS and Science Act. That is going to bring manufacturing back to the United States.…
