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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
I have introduced a bill with Congresswoman Trahan and Congressman Schiff, the Digital Services Oversight and Safety Act.
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.
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.
I love that we are having this hearing, and not only because it's a stone's throw from my house...
We are in this exponential increase in demand, and all of the concerns that we hear is demand is growing faster than supply.
We're owning the future and it's awesome, and I just love that we're doing this.
I want you to imagine a world where the Republican Party praised the President of the United States for raising the price of oil by 24 percent. That sounds crazy, right? Well, that is exactly what happened 2 years ago this month when Trump…
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.
I have a deep and longstanding love affair with energy efficiency, and I appreciate you all being here to support it.
your industry has referred to your opposition to greenhouse gas emissions reduction as energy choice legislation.
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.
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 missed rollcall vote No. 83. Had I been present, I would have voted as follows: ``yea'' on rollcall No. 83. Members Recorded Pursuant to House Resolution 8, 117th Congress Barragan (Gomez) Bass (Takano) Bilirakis (Fleischmann) Bowman…
There is an iron rule of investing: unless you are Warren Buffet or have access to insider information, you won't make money trying to outsmart the market. Invest in mutual funds and index funds to build your wealth. And yet, according to…
Sexual assault is common among female students of all ages, races, and ethnicities. On college campuses, one in five women in college experience a sexual assault. Studies show that students are at the highest risk of sexual assault in the…
Vladimir Putin's horrific war against the Ukrainian people has all of us talking about how to prevent him and other oil-rich autocrats like him from being able to afford to commit these heinous acts in the future. It has also, all of a…





