"I disagree. I don't think it's what Congress intended."
"We need to say so and we need to say so loudly."
"The climate crisis is an urgent one. Regardless of what many of my colleagues may think, we do not have time to debate settled science, and we cannot avoid this issue."
"Every day we fail to act, the consequences of our inaction become more costly and more dire."
"It is up to us to put aside partisan disagreements and act as quickly as this body can possibly act."
"I think members of both parties have agreed that we should prioritize the deployment and development of grid-scale energy storage technologies."
"I have spent 20 years in the clean energy space."
"I'm concerned that the rate at which they're adopted by utilities, by co-ops, municipalities, will be too slow for the scale needed to combat the climate crisis."
"I would like to ask unanimous consent to enter this report into the record."
"I was pleased to hear you call to amend the program to allow companies like Proterra to be able to apply for loans."
"I agree also with your point on the fact that once you get started with this technology you embrace it and you want to go further with it."
"So I want to shift. Since its inception in 2007, the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program has helped drive a whole lot of investment through direct loans to automotive or component manufa..."