"I truly hope we are not still arguing about whether climate change is real. My goodness, the science is so settled."
"I am so impressed by the seriousness at which the Biden White House has addressed climate change."
"The goals, as I understand it, 50 percent reduction by 2030, net zero by 2050."
"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 ..."
"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."
"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."
"there is an understandable political bias for everybody to say we couldn't have seen this coming, and we did"
"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 goi..."
"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."
"There is such a danger in politicizing science. This science is settled, and my goodness, let us not continue that nonsense any longer."