"All of these people who had been arrested and charged, they are being held accountable for their actions. Their leader, the man who incited them, must be held accountable as well."
"Hon. Diana DeGette, a Representative in Congress from the State of Colorado, prepared statement."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this important hearing. I am so excited and grateful that we are finally working with an administration prepared to address the climate crisis."
"President Biden has correctly identified it as one of the great crises we must confront as a nation today."
"Perhaps the single most important objective in reducing U.S. greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050, as the President has called for, is to eliminate the carbon emissions of the electricity sect..."
"I have called on the Biden administration to involve a geriatrician or expert in aging services on the COVID-19 response team."
"If we can increase our capacity and have more rapid test results, it will continue--if we can't do that, it will continue to make it difficult for us to limit the spread."
"As Mr. Dingell used to say, our charge is broad--rooting out waste, fraud, and, abuse wherever we may find it--and I'm sure we'll have many opportunities in the 117th Congress."
"The Biden administration absolutely has its work cut out for it. Indeed, it faces the greatest and most immediate challenge of any Presidential administration in modern memory."
"We must act with a sense of urgency and use every resource available at the Federal, State, and local levels to fight the spread of this disease."
"the end of this nightmare is in sight. Now is the time to double down on our efforts"
"we saw endless dysfunction and chaos as our country was left adrift by the absence of strong, competent Federal leadership"