Kathy Castor

It can also help make communities healthier as we deploy innovative technologies to reduce pollution.

Investing in clean energy gives us an opportunity to create millions of good-paying jobs, family-sustaining jobs that will get Americans back to work and strengthen our middle class.

We have a moral obligation to solve the climate crisis and build back better for decades to come.

To achieve that, we are going to need to rapidly deploy more renewables.

you had reserved the right to object on two previous UC requests.

We must tackle the climate crisis while heeding the calls for racial justice, protecting the health of our families, and helping our neighbors get back to work.

Fortunately, as Ms. Soholt testified, transmission construction creates a lot of good-paying, union jobs.

This is the July 27 letter that is in the portal.

In short, wind turbines are not the greatest threat to birds today. Climate change is.

I am completely frustrated with the Trump administration, after we have provided bipartisan direction and funds to get a handle on supplies and PPE and to boost the supply chains. It is just not there.

I have to tell you, I just got some very disturbing news here in Florida related to COVID that was just announced, that Florida just set an unfortunate record. We have had 120 deaths in just a 24-hour period.

The plan calls on Congress to work with Tribal leaders to expand clean energy solutions, to cut pollution, to advance environmental justice, to improve public health, among other recommendations.

In a 2015 resolution, NCAI called on Congress to clarify that Indian Tribes have regulatory jurisdiction over utilities on reservations or villages.

I think it is very clear, we didn't even need to have a hearing to understand that our indigenous people and our Tribal nations have not been respected under the law.

Justice. Justice. I have heard my Tampa neighbors and their calls for justice. Black lives matter, and I dedicate my vote on the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act today to the generations of Tampa neighbors who have suffered the unfair…

If the liability shield under Section 230 were eliminated today, what practical changes would we see tech platforms like Facebook make?

I believe we need to prohibit the marketing tactic of political ad microtargeting, which fractures our open democratic debate into millions of private, unchecked silos allowing for the spread of disinformation, fake news, false promises…

I believe we should carefully consider amendments that work with a surgical scalpel, rather than a jackhammer.

Let me be clear, the President is using his position to chill speech and that is wrong.

Spreading lies about a candidate, designing messages to suppress the vote of specific communities, or communicating falsehoods about voter registration or electoral procedures is, in my view, an act of assault on our democracy.

But it is worse than that. It is worse than that though, with the proliferation of child pornography and other illicit behavior.

I introduced H.R. 7014, the Banning Microtargeted Political Ads Act, to prohibit online platforms from targeting ads based on demographic and behavioral data of users.

It's really shocking. And it makes me angry and it makes me sad at the same time.

I think it starts at the top. I think the President's behavior and comments have undermined our public health professionals every step of the way.

The COVID pandemic certainly has highlighted the unfortunate health disparities across America.