Political Quotes

“It is, again, great to be here this morning. I appreciate Speaker Pelosi coming down and talking about bipartisan solutions and working together. Obviously, on this piece of legislation, I think the terminology was demanding a plan for the administration. Well, that assumes that the administration would sign this bill. That also assumes that the Senate would pass this bill. Even if the President would sign a bill that he doesn't want to enact, he would probably then veto the bill he just signed. Then we would sustain his veto. If we want to move forward, then we want to do things that can get through the Senate and get to the President's desk. That is why, all afternoon yesterday, we talked about--and this amendment has some of those issues in it--adaptation, resiliency, grid modernization, and how do you adapt. We appreciate the intent on which this amendment is being brought forward. On another cautionary note, in the Paris accord, when it talks about addressing loss and damage associated with the impacts of climate change, it is referring to the Paris accord's provision for developing countries. That accord doesn't have provisions for developed countries. Maybe as things move forward with my colleague from New Jersey, we can make sure we address that appropriately. We would like to have these studies done before we go into international agreements when we don't know how they are going to respond, versus after the fact, just like the cart before the horse.…”