I want to thank you, Madam Chairwoman, for this very outstanding and provocative and informative hearing.

The energy sector is the second largest source of greenhouse gas emission in the U.S.

A fundamental instrument that is key to the--employment of reliable and affordable clean energy is electric transmission.

We need a major expansion of the electric transmission system to establish our net-zero clean energy economy.

Today the Subcommittee on Energy convenes for a hearing on the CLEAN Future Act as well as other legislation to address electric transmission and the delivery of clean, reliable power.

Speaking frankly, we need a major expansion of the electric transmission system to establish a net zero clean energy economy.

I recently introduced the Farm Subsidy Transparency Act (H.R. 3794/S. 1980), along with Senator Booker, which will require USDA to track and publicly disclose the race and gender of all individuals who receive or who are denied farm…

It strengthened my belief that when it comes to agricultural innovation in our workforce, America is not only competitive in the global economy, but it is indeed the best in the world.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I yield back the balance of my time.

If we are going to break that cycle, we must take this current cold deadly serious, and we must ensure that the needs of the black community as it relates to COVID-19 are taken just as seriously as well.

Last April, I published an op-ed in the Chicago Sun-Times entitled, When white America catches a cold, black America catches pneumonia.