I am pleased that President Biden's proposed fiscal year 2022 budget would largely restore the agency's degraded capacity by increasing its budget by roughly 20 percent.

While President Biden has only released a bare bones budget to date, it is clear that the Administration's priorities are aligned, at least in my view, with the needs of the American people.

We would be foolish to ignore it.

The challenges before us are great.

We look forward to hearing from you about how you plan to bring us to that brighter future.

I would argue we are not going to be able to fix Central America until we reduce or stop our insatiable demand for drugs.

Why not have folks who want that, to seek asylum in the United States, to go to our embassies, our consulates in their native countries, like Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador. Why not just do that?

At no time in recent memory has the need for investment in American health been more urgent than today, as we emerge from the worst pandemic in 100 years.

I am always looking for ways to do good things for our planet, for our environment, for our air, and create jobs and economic opportunity.

As we work to ensure that migrants are safely and responsibly guided through the immigration process, partnerships with organizations such as Annunciation House and the International Rescue Committee are essential.

I was going to be Chair of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Achieving the President's climate goals is going to require EPA to be performing at its best.

The President's budget reflects the vision of this Nation that we can look to for inspiration as we work together to deliver on the promises of cleaner air, cleaner water in every zip code.

I would just mention a couple of things.

I appreciate the leadership that you and Senator Ben Cardin have provided on some aspects of our water infrastructure legislation.

Last week, the Administration pledged to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent to 52 percent from 2005 levels by 2030 as part of an international climate summit organized by the President.

Last week our President celebrated Earth Day by committing the United States to becoming 50-percent cleaner in terms of greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the decade.

I recently introduced the Securing America's Clean Fuels Infrastructure Act with Senator Richard Burr.

Through my work on this committee, and as chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, I remain committed to passing laws that would drive down dangerous emissions and clean energy costs for consumers, help tackle the…

I quoted Oliver Wendell Holmes, who said that taxes are what we pay for a civilized society.

today is a special day. It is Earth Day. I had the privilege of actually being at the first Earth Day, at Golden Gate Park, a million years ago. The speaker there that day was Ralph Nader, and there was a huge crowd. Hundreds of thousands…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Earth Day

A 2010 report of the Postal Regulatory Commission (PRC) recommended adopting private sector pension cost allocation methods for the postal account within the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund (CSRDF) to more accurately, more…

when I think of some of the dumbest things that we have done in recent years in terms of trade, that is high on the list.

I think it is important to rejoin the CPTPP, as it is now.