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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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May 22, 2024

We have heard several times this legislation is better than the status quo. There are a whole lot of reasons that is not true, but I want to focus specifically on this bill's utter failure to address the use of cryptocurrency by…

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May 16, 2024

It is Police Week, the week when law enforcement officers who keep us safe all over the country come to Washington to remind us how important they are and when Members of Congress introduce resolutions and bills and give speeches in this…

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Apr 9, 2024

We have to act on this stuff. We are sitting here in a moment where we know these changes are happening.

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Apr 9, 2024

The last time I checked, Elizabeth Holmes committed financial fraud by misrepresenting medical science.

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Mar 22, 2024

First, I remind my colleagues that Donald Trump called the Saudis and said to please do everything they can to raise the oil price because gasoline is so cheap, and they did. I appreciate them keeping the gas price up. In the words of a…

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Mar 22, 2024

I thank the chairman for granting me more time because there is still so much silliness left in this bill. I will shift now to the elimination of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Let's talk about what this program does. This program…

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Mar 20, 2024

Now, nobody wants to stand up to him.

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Mar 20, 2024

Leadership is hard, but following people is the opposite of leadership.

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Mar 20, 2024

If my ability to hold this job depended on appealing to that small minority of Americans who do not believe that the United States should lead, but make up the majority of the Republican primary electorate.

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Mar 20, 2024

I think the appropriate title for this hearing is how is it that the Republican Party, the party of Reagan, has become so uncomfortable with global leadership.

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Mar 20, 2024

Do you believe that the United States should withdraw from international financial institutions and cede leadership to everybody else in the world?

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Mar 20, 2024

We are going to leave Congress this week, for 2 weeks, without even bringing a bill to the House Floor to provide aid to our friends in Ukraine to stand up to Vladimir Putin.

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Mar 19, 2024

You're going to deny--let me remind you, insurers are pulling out of Florida, they are pulling out of Louisiana, they are pulling out of Texas, and California.

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Mar 19, 2024

Climate change poses a major risk to the stability of the U.S. financial system.

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Mar 19, 2024

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

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Mar 19, 2024

Let none of us in this room ever trust someone who claims to be pro-market when all they are really doing is trying to protect the power of the powerful.

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Feb 15, 2024

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…

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Feb 15, 2024

There is a really simple question before us today: Is it in the U.S. national interest to look out for U.S. energy consumers or for U.S. energy producers? Let's look at the facts. According to the most recent DOE data over the last decade…

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Feb 15, 2024

I thank the chairman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, this debate makes me sad. Energy policy is really important. Energy consumers are really important. The environment is really important. So much of this debate is completely untethered from…

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Feb 15, 2024

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…

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Feb 13, 2024

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

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Jan 18, 2024

This month marks the 51st anniversary of Roe v. Wade. That decision, which recognized women's individual right to bodily autonomy, has now been supplanted by a Supreme Court that effectively said that the Federal Government isn't here to…

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Jan 17, 2024

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

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Jan 17, 2024

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.

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Dec 14, 2023

Yesterday, my Republican colleagues voted to condemn college presidents. I wish they were condemning anti-Semitism, but don't let the title of that resolution fool you. This was never about that. We know that because they did not condemn…

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