Sean Casten

The single-loneliest position in Washington, D.C., is to be an advocate for competitive markets.

I am glad we made you more competitive. I trust your data, and we are just going to tell folks at home that because we were so patriotic and environmentally minded. Like I said in my last remarks, this is a really good bill if you want to…

Should we increase global warming? Should we do all of that just so that the natural gas industry can make more money selling U.S. resources to Asia--not to Europe, because that is where the margin is going. Or should we maintain the…

This bipartisan bill creates a Good Steward Cover Crop Program to subsidize farmers who use cover crops.

We do not have the ability to negotiate the laws of physics or the laws of economics.

This hearing is really about whether we are going to protect investors' rights to access information or protect companies' rights to withhold information from investors.

This bipartisan bill would provide mandatory funding to purchase development rights via conservation easements from private and Tribal landowners.

Recently, U.S. Rep. Sean Casten, an Illinois Democrat, and U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, an Ohio Democrat, introduced the Conservation Opportunity and Voluntary Environment Resilience Program (COVER) Act.

I am proud that it is both bipartisan and bicameral, co-led in this Congress by Congresswoman Slotkin of Michigan and my friend Mr. Bost of this Committee from Illinois and Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio.

I just want to join my colleagues in underscoring the importance that the next farm bill preserves the nearly $20 billion provided in the Inflation Reduction Act for USDA conservation programs.

I am troubled by the fact that there is a common nexus in all those, which is crypto networks that are used to evade anti-money laundering rules.

I appreciate the confusion, and part of the reason I asked the question is, we have seen a lot of public actions by Treasury, by the Justice Department.

We do need a fully-funded Defense Authorization Act.

I just want to raise a concern with some public reporting that has come out this week that Chairman McHenry has been threatening to hold up the Defense Authorization Act unless we get a crypto-friendly bill.

I think all of us on this committee want to make sure that we stop those things.

I would challenge the assertion that all tax equity is treated the same way.

I do have some concerns I want to raise about the tax equity provisions, specifically as they relate to clean energy.

We cannot say that we do not want the United States to have a leadership role by actually passing regulations and then complain about the fact that other people lead.

I often say that the loneliest position in Congress is to advocate for competitive markets because nobody comes to Congress and says, you know what? What my market needs is more transparency, lower barriers to entry for my competitors.

I try to offload it, right? And, in fact, we are seeing that the sophisticated players are moving risks onto unsophisticated players.

Last year, there were $165 billion in insured losses from weather-related disasters in the United States.

In 2020, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), under President Trump, issued a report on managing climate risk in the financial sector that said, among other things, that climate change poses a major risk to the stability of the…

Democracy only survives if we defend it.

It should not be exceptional or praiseworthy to defend our democracy, but I understand the courage that takes in today's Republican Party.

Last week, on October 17th, Senator Warren, Senator Marshall, and I led 102 lawmakers in a bipartisan, bicameral letter to Treasury raising concerns about some of these reports that we have mentioned about the use of crypto in financing…