Sean Casten

Let's at least be more ambitious than Ontario.

Let's not be constrained by our ambition. Let's get it done.

Our job today is not to justify delay or make excuses for inaction.

That will require a rate of decarbonization and deployment of renewables beyond anything we have ever achieved.

We have to push to electrify everything as quick as we can, or as much as we can to decarbonize.

As you mentioned, we have NERC, we have FERC to cover the reliability. They do an excellent job, and I trust them.

Every time we build a zero-carbon energy asset, we build a plant that does not require fossil fuel to run, and it has driven down the cost of energy.

This is a problem that's driven from the top, and I would submit to you that it's been deliberately imposed by Postmaster Louis DeJoy to weaken and ultimately privatize the post office.

Last year I had to organize a town hall after an Asian-American constituent of mine was attacked and beaten on the run by people who felt empowered by the fact that the President of the United States was using racist terms to describe…

We have always had a challenge in our country, maybe in every country, between, you know, people who embrace change and people who are afraid of change.

I am a co-sponsor and supporter of my friend, Mr. Foster's, bill, H.R. 3305, the End the Threat of Default Act, to take that tool away from Congress, because Congress has proven that we cannot be trusted with that responsibility.

Then let's--for goodness sake, let's stop subsidizing enhanced oil recovery. It is a boondoggle.

I was pleased we actually voted on the floor last night, we had an amendment that myself and Representative McEachin put in to start the process of eliminating that credit subsidy.

I am getting exhausted hearing my friends across the aisle say that what we need to do is to subsidize energy sources that are slashing their prices and losing market share.

Every clean energy technology we have has a lower operating cost than the technology it displaces.

Getting to a clean energy economy is synonymous with getting to a cheap energy economy.

I think we have twisted our arm an awful lot congratulating ourselves for doing what is politically possible.

It is maddening to me that we subsidize energy extraction in this country and we also subsidize energy conservation.

I truly hope we are not still arguing about whether climate change is real. My goodness, the science is so settled.

I thank the gentlewoman for her words and her leadership. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Oregon (Ms. Bonamici).

I am awfully troubled that some of my colleagues across the aisle, who are so outspoken in their opposition to socialism... seem to be so predisposed to policies that would direct our banks to invest in politically-preferred industries or…

The goals, as I understand it, 50 percent reduction by 2030, net zero by 2050.

I am so impressed by the seriousness at which the Biden White House has addressed climate change.

In April 2021, Rep. Sean Casten and Sen. Martin Heinrich introduced the Interregional Transmission Planning Improvement Act of 2021.

I guess I would just remind everybody, including my friend Mr. Crenshaw, that it is comparatively really easy to permit gas pipelines in this country.