Kathy Castor

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of H.R. 263, the Big Cat Public Safety Act, as a proud cosponsor of this legislation for many years. Big cats such as lions, tigers, panthers, and others…

We are at a perilous time where an extremist Supreme Court and the GOP are rolling back our rights. They are rolling back the legal guarantee to control our bodies and to make our own decisions about when to have children. In States like…

I'm excited to recognize our two distinguished guests for this important hearing so we can learn from them: Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham, of New Mexico, and Governor Mark Gordon, of Wyoming.

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the ocean must be part of our national climate strategy--and we must invest in ocean-based climate solutions.

we have got to move to clean energy. I mean, it is more plain than ever.

the resilience and adaptation, we have to do it. We have waited too long to decarbonize.

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I am so worried about the oceans. And our--you know, my local economy in the Tampa Bay area in the State of Florida is directly tied to clean water.

I thank the gentlemen for yielding time, and I thank my colleague and friend from Florida as well. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong support of S. 2938 to name the Federal courthouse in Tallahassee, Florida, for Judge Joseph Woodrow…

We're behind, we're late, and we are running out of time to limit warming and avoid catastrophic impacts and rising costs.

You think looking at what they are doing with slave labor and child labor, the way that they completely abuse the Uyghurs in human rights.

Energy efficiency and energy conservation efforts are absolutely critical in our long-term objectives here.

It`s time for the big oil companies to lower prices rather than pad your bottom line.

As we stare down the barrel of a costly climate catastrophe, there's much more we must do.

Congress should pursue an all-of-the-above energy policy that continues to invest in energy efficient, gas-fired appliances.

Unless Congress deploys them with urgency, in partnership with innovators and entrepreneurs and across the economy, Americans will be forced to pay more and more.

I strongly urge Congress to enact the bipartisan HOPE for HOMES.

I applaud the leadership of Sen. Reed (D-RI), Sen. Collins (R-ME), Sen. Coons (D-DE), and Sen. Shaheen (D-NH)

I am really proud of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that President Biden championed, that has these historic investments in weatherization.

You have done your part by including significant portions of this legislation in Build Back Better.

Thank you Chairwoman Castor and Congressman Casten on this committee for their cosponsorship to that.

That's why President Biden is working to lower energy costs and expand clean technologies.

China has increased emissions 4 tons for every one ton of emissions we have reduced.

There's a common theme here: the costs of climate change and the rising costs of energy seem to always fall on working families.