"Americans pay more for prescription drugs than any other nation in the world."
"I was absolutely thrilled to see your request for $936 million towards a new accelerating environmental and economic justice initiative."
"It is called 'Protection from Cumulative Emissions and Underenforcement of Environmental Law Act.' And that is my bill."
"These neighborhoods are classic environmental justice communities. They suffer from highways going right through the middle, from railways, refineries, other historical polluters."
"What I really can't understand is how not either of their witnesses or one of the Members is willing to talk about how we address cleanup of these environmental justice areas."
"Would you agree that underenforcement of environmental laws is a classic example of an environmental--of environmental injustice?"
"Do you think that this hurts the ability of the local neighbors to actually move forward in supporting their communities, when they see that the Government just doesn't even care?"
"It will leave a stain on who we are as Americans since we would be exchanging the religious freedoms of tribal people for a promise of jobs and profit offered by a foreign mining interest."
"Last month an extreme weather event in Texas triggered a crisis of an enormous scale and took a staggering toll on the State."
"The key lesson from what happened in Texas is that extreme weather events are devastating and happening more frequently."
"We need to accept this fact and prepare. We need to stop kicking the can down the road."
"Adapting and confronting to a changing climate will not come cheap, and it will not come easily."