I would like to close, as I often do, by observing that there are really only three things we have to do as a country. The first thing we have to do is cut the energy--double the efficiency with which we convert energy into economic…

I am reminded as I listen to the gentlewoman speak--I know our whip always likes to quote George Santayana who said that those who don't study their history are doomed to repeat it. We are at the cusp--it has probably already started--of…

I thank the gentlewoman for her words and her leadership. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Oregon (Ms. Bonamici).

I want to reassure my friend from Arkansas that the bill does direct the SEC to tailor those disclosure requirements to different industries to make sure that the burden is borne most heavily by those companies with the greatest…

I think there is a refreshing change coming in our energy structure primarily because all of those old power plants--that some of the utilities in Florida that we are fighting because they still have all that capital they wanted to…

The goals, as I understand it, 50 percent reduction by 2030, net zero by 2050.

I am so impressed by the seriousness at which the Biden White House has addressed climate change.

I am awfully troubled that some of my colleagues across the aisle, who are so outspoken in their opposition to socialism... seem to be so predisposed to policies that would direct our banks to invest in politically-preferred industries or…

I guess I would just remind everybody, including my friend Mr. Crenshaw, that it is comparatively really easy to permit gas pipelines in this country.

In April 2021, Rep. Sean Casten and Sen. Martin Heinrich introduced the Interregional Transmission Planning Improvement Act of 2021.

Wildfires, flooding, and superstorms are the most tangible signs of a warming planet, but the climate crisis is not just about weather. It is about wealth. A recent study by Swiss Re found that if we remain on our current trajectory…

The time for action is now. No longer can we substitute slogans for solutions. The protection of the environment offers America its best hope. Achieving the goal of a clean and healthy environment must be done by every American. We can…

Never ending subsidies skew markets in a way that stifles American innovation.

We need a level playing field, and we need to stop deluding ourself that the level playing field doesn't overwhelmingly skew to the dirty energy sector.

Earlier this month I visited Teen Parent Connection in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. It is an organization that serves young mothers, offering everything from diapers and formula, to doulas, counseling, and domestic abuse support services. They…

there is an understandable political bias for everybody to say we couldn't have seen this coming, and we did

During my first month in Congress, I visited Family Shelter Service, an organization that provides lifesaving counseling, victim protection, and a 24/7 hotline to women and children in northern Illinois. They provide nearly 11,000 nights…

the scale of what we are talking about in transmission in our infrastructure plan is a tiny, tiny, tiny fraction of that, and we don't start to grapple with the numbers you're talking about, we're going to be wrong-footed.

Any conversation we're having about the conversion to a clean energy economy being economically painful is at best economically naive, and at worst immoral.

For the one in eight Americans who will go to bed hungry tonight; for the 60 million Americans out of work and the 40 million who fear they might be evicted tomorrow; for the 2.3 million women, a million mothers, who have left the…

For months I had calls coming into my office about delays in the U.S. mail. Some of these delays had to do with cold weather, some are because of COVID, but most are the direct result of the failures and slowdowns deliberately imposed by…

There is such a danger in politicizing science. This science is settled, and my goodness, let us not continue that nonsense any longer.

You have a hard job and you are always biased in favor of clarity rather than opacity as you balance some of the political tensions of your job.

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 8, the yeas and nays are ordered. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, further proceedings on this motion will be postponed…

The transitional risks are hard, though, because converting to a clean energy system means converting to an energy system that has lower marginal operating costs.