Kathy Castor

I am committed to advancing treatments and cures for neurodegenerative diseases.

But, please, everybody, if you are not vaccinated, get vaccinated so that we can crush COVID.

Well, thanks in large part to American research and innovation, we can now power our homes and cars and businesses in ways that pollute less and cost less.

The low- and moderate-income communities with the working class Americans are being left behind and can't access the benefits of the clean energy economy.

It is not some political imperative. It is a scientific imperative.

It's now cheaper to drive an electric car than a gas-powered one, thanks to lower maintenance costs and other savings over the lifetime of a vehicle.

We know we must act urgently to reduce carbon pollution.

We have made progress, but we have the technologies now to go farther and help deploy them, as all of the witnesses said, globally.

The FTC should follow through. They should follow through on President Biden's direction to use its powers to protect consumers' privacy.

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Madam Speaker, I rise in support of the Castor amendment. America's public schools, colleges, and universities are the engines of economic opportunity, and our funding package provides historic…

We have got to give the FTC all of the tools it needs to help protect consumers from fraudsters and scam artists.

I helped secure language in the financial services appropriations bill... that urges the FTC to prioritize investigations into potential violations of the COPPA Rule.

Our neighbors back home are tired of the scam artists ripping them off, so I rise in strong support of H.R. 2668, the Consumer Protection and Recovery Act. I thank Representative Cardenas, Chair Schakowsky, and Chair Pallone for moving…

There is good news. The Congress intends to invest in America through passage of a landmark surface transportation and infrastructure package. This is what President Biden challenged us to do, and we will follow through. It also comes one…

Doing so will create a huge number of jobs. It will help lower our electric bills for our neighbors back home.

This is one of the most important hearings that we have had in this committee because America's electric grid is in need of major investments.

The truth is the status quo is really hurting consumers.

I appreciate that we focused a lot about the cost on consumers and affordability during this hearing.

It will cut pollution. It will improve our health, will help us expand clean energy so that we can avoid the catastrophic impacts of the climate crisis.

So that's just completely frustrating, what businesses, what States, communities are trying to do.

To address this traffic jam that we have, last week I introduced the Efficient Grid Interconnection Act.

Well, what has been so fascinating is there are so many people in the room because they understand the opportunities, the job-creating opportunities through the American Jobs Plan. Here we go. The American Jobs Plan will create 2.7 million…

I think that is one of the reasons why President Biden's American Jobs Plan targets 40 percent of the benefits of our clean energy and clean infrastructure investments to disadvantaged communities. I think that is smart policy. I think the…

Hearing my colleague speak with such passion and such intellect really does give me hope that we have the tools necessary to tackle the climate crisis. But I think we also need to think about climate as a climate opportunity, and there are…

Mr. Casten is right. You know, listing off all the job opportunities, the transportation sector, he is right. And this is a global competitiveness issue. We have got to win this race with China and the Europeans. They are building those…