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Sean Casten

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Sean Thomas Casten is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Illinois's 6th congressional district since January 3, 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, Casten has focused on issues such as climate change, renewable energy, and public safety during his time in office. He has been an advocate for policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions and promoting sustainable practices. Casten's background in business and science informs his legislative priorities, particularly in areas related to energy and environmental policy.

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Oct 29, 2019

My view is that its super easy to solve the climate crisis. We only have to do three things.

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Oct 29, 2019

Congresswoman Brownley had asked whether a carbon tax or fee or something like that would be appropriate.

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Oct 21, 2019

I introduced H.R. 3623 with Representative Cartwright.

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Oct 21, 2019

This is all ball. And the question is, what will the remedy of the commons be?

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Oct 17, 2019

I rise as the designee for the gentleman from New York (Mr. Sean Patrick Maloney) to offer amendment No. 4. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 6, insert after line 5 the…

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Oct 17, 2019

I encourage my colleagues to vote for the amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.

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Oct 17, 2019

This isn't a mandate on high to dictate to the SEC what the disclosures should say but rather says that it must do qualitative interviews to confirm that investors understand the disclosure. That is why the AARP has endorsed the bill, as…

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Oct 16, 2019

We have either a great opportunity or a great embarrassment... that comes from the fact that so many of our trading partners use so much less energy per dollar of GDP than we do.

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Oct 14, 2019

There is one question of how you suppress votes. There is a separate question of how you target them.

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Oct 14, 2019

Given the hack that happened on our elections I think it is critical for us to let people know that we are actively working to fix this.

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Oct 14, 2019

democracy depends on people trusting that their elections represent the will of the people.

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Sep 25, 2019

We have got to get to zero CO2 yesterday. The hard question is, how?

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Sep 25, 2019

the historic challenge with our climate forecasts is that they are prone to underpredict the severity of what happens

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Sep 25, 2019

I encouraged my friends at NREL to consider reaching out to some people who might know how to do that, because I think that having 24/7 renewable energy would be a pretty nice thing to have there.

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Sep 25, 2019

My longtime friend Mike McCracken, who is one of the co-authors of the IPCC report that shared the Nobel Prize with Al Gore, has been pointing out for some time in ways that are very troubling that the historic challenge with our climate…

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Sep 25, 2019

I was proud to introduce H.R. 4230, the Clean Industrial Technology Act, specifically to stand up an agency at the Department of Energy to do that research.

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Sep 18, 2019

I do not have the luxury in my career of selectively interpreting facts.

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Sep 18, 2019

When you appeared before the Senate for your confirmation hearing, Senator Merkley asked you about a study from Boston University, Harvard, and Syracuse that had recently been published.

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Sep 18, 2019

I want to stay on facts because I'm really concerned with the way that you have analyzed facts.

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Sep 9, 2019

We have about $1.5 trillion worth of debt. My colleagues across the aisle last term blew a $1.5 trillion hole in the economy...

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Jul 31, 2019

But that is a supply question. Demand still matters.

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Jul 31, 2019

I have a real, real concern that if the price of gas goes up, we are going to use a lot more coal in this country.

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Jul 31, 2019

Anything you do meaningfully to lower the cost of energy and lower CO2 are synonymous, because you can't lower CO2 without burning less fuel.

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Jul 31, 2019

You have done something really innovative here to address that problem, and I just would like you to tell us about it.

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Jul 24, 2019

I have spent 20 years in the clean energy space.

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