This high-cost CAF support is essential to ensure access to all Americans regardless of geography.

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Remembering State Senator Gil Kahele

this amendment is based on a very simple idea: that there should be a level playing field for fossil fuels and for clean energy. Right now we have subsidies on both the fossil fuel side and on the clean energy side through our Tax Code…

I call up amendment No. 3176 and ask that it be reported by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment by number. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Hawaii [Mr. Schatz] proposes…

what is aloha? It is not a catchphrase. As it is commonly understood, it is synonymous with kindness, with love, with hospitality, with a Hawaiian perspective, but it is difficult for those not from Hawaii to fully understand its meaning…

I wish to start by congratulating the chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee, the senior Senator from Alaska, for her leadership on this bill and so many other issues. She is a testament to how the Senate should operate. She…

I thank the senior Senator from New Mexico for his longtime leadership on climate and conservation issues. I have been working on this for a long time, as many of us on the floor have been working on this for a long time, and I have not…

climate change is real, it is caused by humans, and it is solvable.

We cannot ignore the overwhelming evidence of climate change.

97 percent of the scientists have come independently to the same conclusion.

Scientists should and do receive Federal research dollars based on the merit of their work, not on their conclusions.

this committee is turning its back on the real science.

How would you establish causality in an experiment involving our planet?

I rise to speak in support of the administration's Clean Power Plan. I think the first thing that must be said--and said over and over, especially this week, with so many critical issues facing our country, with appropriations bills…

I rise to talk about one of the solutions to one of the driving forces behind global climate change; that is, deforestation. After fossil fuel combustion, deforestation is the single largest contributor to human-induced climate change, but…

I ask to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Solutions to Deforestation

I thank the assistant Democratic leader for his leadership on this issue and for his willingness to educate colleagues and educate the public and to push the DOE to take much needed action in this area. What is happening with some…

there are two problems here. Normally, when something is a waste of taxpayer money, it is not usually also harmful to individuals across the country, but this is a double whammy. This is harming students, causing them to collectively incur…

the bipartisan and bicameral Consumer Review Freedom Act that would ban non-disparagement clauses in form contracts

How do you figure out whether the company has a non-disparagement clause? Is that based on consumer complaints, or do you have a process internally?

The legislation would void anti-disparagement clauses in consumer contracts if they restrict consumers from publicly reviewing products or businesses in good faith.

Your case perfectly illustrates why we need a law, because individual consumers are in no position to fight this injustice.

Fair enough. But it does point out that we are operating at the beginning of this problem and, therefore, we are lacking good decision support on exactly the size and scope of the problem.

But I think one of the reasons this bill is so important is it is not just the fact that--even if there were no law, if people think that they may be gone after--and I think we are at a point, if we don't solve the problem soon, there…

I think it really is a very clear justification for Federal action.