This country, much like this Committee, has very diverse and broad geographic makeup.

The need here is huge.

The sea level is rising and the State is sinking, which is not a very good combination.

In Delaware we can come up on I-95 out of Washington and pick up State Route 1, which is a north-south road that takes you right down parallel to the ocean.

I wanted to take an opportunity to clarify the implications of title II in the reconciliation bill before us pertaining to the development of oil and gas resources along the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. As our…

I intend to offer the following motion to H.R. 1, and I ask unanimous consent that it be printed in the Record. The motion is supported by Senators Van Hollen and Warner. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in…

9 years have passed since I first joined the Senate Finance Committee. For each of those 9 years, I have looked forward to working on tax reform. In the House of Representatives, a million years ago, I had the privilege of working on tax…

I want to say, with respect to Andrew Wheeler, I don't know him as well as Jim Inhofe does, but during his hearing and in response to the questions for the record, I thought that he may have demonstrated a more transparent and straight…

I remain less encouraged with Administrator Pruitt's progress in responding to the 31 letters requesting information that have been sent to him by our side of this Committee.

I urge my colleagues to vote no on the nominations of Ms. White and Mr. Wheeler.

I strongly urge a sense of conscience and a no vote.

If the responses that are being crafted by EPA now are completed in short order and are truly responsive, we will make progress on a number of nominations.

We tried to do that in Section 143 of the FAST Act a couple of years ago, which requires the Department of Transportation to designate national electric vehicle charging hydrogen propane and natural gas fueling corridors.

I was pleased to work with Ted Stevens, Dianne Feinstein, and others on regulations, CAFE regulations, actually, on legislation raising for the first time in some 30 years fuel emission standards.

Strong, long term certain standards are critical, and the more that industry can look out, can make those plans, again, not just the automakers, but the suppliers, the better.

We have to be leading the charge in technology to get that done; not only on the clean coal side, but also in the generation of storage for batteries.

Saying that you have to do so for the good of the American economy is just blatantly false.

It is time to really put our hands together and figure out how to modernize some of these policies.

We also have an obligation in the Government to protect our health, the health of our public.

One of the most important things we do, as I said earlier, in Government is create a nurturing environment for job creation, job preservation.

In fact, scrapping forward looking standards will only provide more uncertainty for businesses and threaten to stifle American innovation.

In order for the United States to continue to be the world's leader in this new clean energy revolution, we need both Federal investment in technology and common sense regulations.

How important is it to have certainty beyond 2025 in this regard?

Walking away from the Paris Climate Agreement--leaving the U.S. the only country in the entire world not part of this historic deal--and walking away from other climate and clean air protections are beyond irresponsible.

Abraham Lincoln famously said that the role of government is to do for the people what they cannot do for themselves.