Kathy Castor: “I thank Ranking Member Pallone for his leadership and yielding the time. Madam Chair, I rise in strong opposition to the…”

“I thank Ranking Member Pallone for his leadership and yielding the time. Madam Chair, I rise in strong opposition to the polluters over people act, and I rushed here to the floor with some good news: This bill is not going anywhere. President Biden has already said that he intends to veto it, but it is not even going to make it out of the U.S. Senate. I thought President Biden spoke very well in his statement on his veto message. He said, we are ``making unprecedented progress in protecting America's energy security and reducing energy costs for Americans--in their homes and at the pump. H.R. 1 would do just the opposite, replacing pro-consumer policies with a thinly veiled license to pollute. It would raise costs for American families by repealing household energy rebates and rolling back historic investments to increase access to cost-lowering clean energy technologies. Instead of protecting American consumers, it would pad oil and gas company profits--already at record levels--and undercut our public health and environment.'' It will take us backwards. In fact, a number of America's leading health organizations, like the American Lung Association, the Children's Environmental Health Network, and others wrote to Congress to say they oppose H.R. 1 and its attempt to weaken the Clean Air Act to allow additional polluting energy sources.…”