"Fundamentally, we all collectively are going to have to adopt strategies that enable us to move into a future in which microplastics are not polluting our planet."
"if you want to take care of your children, you have to start addressing these incredibly inconvenient things"
"It is beyond disheartening to hear that our veterans are not being given the appropriate level of review on their immigration cases."
"this notion that we can't adapt, that removing microplastics--suddenly we all will be amiss--with the realities of trying to replace the plastic tube that carries toothpaste, to me is a false choice."
"You don't get the labor exemption. We've seen that kind of gaming at the border, so we need broad action to reinstate the original congressional purposes."
"Clearly, there's somewhere in the middle here where I think we all can come to an agreement that noncompetes may be appropriate in certain circumstances, but the way in which they're being abused in a..."
"Natural solutions are an important piece of solving the climate crisis, and certainly that has been adduced through both the testimony from the witnesses today as well as the comments of my colleagues..."
"In July, earlier this year, I introduced two bipartisan bills, the study on improving lands, or SOIL Act, and the Sustainable Agriculture Research Act, and the goal of these bills is to support the ef..."
"The Land and Water Conservation Fund has helped conserve and safeguard thousands of acres of natural areas across the United States, including nearly 200 projects in Colorado's Second District alone t..."
"Earlier this year the Congress permanently reauthorized the LWCF but failed to provide permanent funding for the program."
"I think that the focus on natural solutions, this is one of those areas in which there is a real potential for bipartisan solutions to emerge."
"I must confess I am disappointed by some, not all, but some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle who chose to use their time impugning the integrity of former Government officials instead o..."