Sean Casten

If we have complete information--and this is all about markets moving to hedge the risk and look at where it goes--when we look at the losses from climate change, do you think we have sufficiently transparent information now to make sure…

A 2020 CFTC report said that climate change poses a major risk to the stability of our financial system.

If for the last 30 years one major political party had been screaming from the rooftop that two plus two equals five, two plus two would still equal four.

I am generally very supportive of the CRA, but it has always struck me that it has some sort of inherent structural flaws.

If we don't balance fiscal and monetary policies, we are going to be looking at a recovery that looks much more like the Great Depression or the 2008 recession.

Do we see human pain and suffering as a problem to be solved or as a frailty to be exploited for our political ends?

The fear of a recession is not because our economy is weak, but because our democracy is weak.

I don't think we could have done that without your voice, and the fact that we had as not only as rapid a recovery, but as equitable a recovery as we did was because we had that space.

I will take a moment after the shootings this week just to read the names of the children under 10 years old in America who have been killed by guns so far this year. Aiden, age 8. Alice, a newborn. Alyssa, age 6. Amare, age 10. Andres…

It is important that the United States leads.

Do we care about climate or not? ... I would like the President's budget to articulate that ambition, not to say that our goal in this moment in time is to kick the can down the road.

If we decide that the best time to act on climate is tomorrow, then we've repeated the mistakes of everybody who has ever held this job before.

I have introduced a bill with Congresswoman Trahan and Congressman Schiff, the Digital Services Oversight and Safety Act.

The transition to clean energy broadly strikes me as being both enormously optimistic... and pessimistic because it is creating a tremendous wealth transfer

I just introduced a bill with Paul Tonko two weeks ago and I hope we get the appropriations.

We also are generous. We don't--we share our wealth in Illinois.

We're owning the future and it's awesome, and I just love that we're doing this.

We are in this exponential increase in demand, and all of the concerns that we hear is demand is growing faster than supply.

I love that we are having this hearing, and not only because it's a stone's throw from my house...

In a grid that does not have--that does not depend on 33 percent efficient fossil fuel plants--and, yes, that is the grid we have had since 1957. It is not the grid we want to give our children. We owe them better.

We cannot look our children in the eye and say that we are doing what we have to do to provide a sustainable planet unless we electrify massive parts of our grid and decarbonize the grid.

Your industry has referred to your opposition to greenhouse gas emissions reduction as energy choice legislation.

I have a deep and longstanding love affair with energy efficiency, and I appreciate you all being here to support it.

Tomorrow will be the 2-year anniversary of President Trump calling the Saudi Arabian Government and saying that we are going to withhold, we are going to take our troops out, unless you cut OPEC production, and in his words, because of a…

I don't like picking winners and losers, but my goodness, if we keep subsidizing an industry that needs $650 billion a year to stay competitive doesn't sound like we're picking the winners.