"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 Oh..."
"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."
"This bipartisan bill would provide mandatory funding to purchase development rights via conservation easements from private and Tribal landowners."
"I think all of us on this committee want to make sure that we stop those things."
"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-friendl..."
"We do need a fully-funded Defense Authorization Act."
"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."
"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 do have some concerns I want to raise about the tax equity provisions, specifically as they relate to clean energy."
"I would challenge the assertion that all tax equity is treated the same way."
"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 pos..."
"Last year, there were $165 billion in insured losses from weather-related disasters in the United States."