Rob Garcia

What I don't want to do is conflate asylum seekers with the flow of drugs.

These broad attacks that we are hearing today on immigrants today, I believe is un-American.

Real patriotism, American patriotism, is actually about helping people.

I am also a small group of Members of Congress that are immigrants.

Democrats care about human trafficking and taking it on. We care about a safe and secure border.

There is current election interference happening today by Russia and other actors.

It has to look to strengthen and enforce the laws that are in the books right now in order to make sure that that extraction and that recycling happens in a way that protects communities first.

It is making sure that we are making investments for the right long-term outcomes. And so that is what the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund really does.

Well, in a lot of the calculations that we are talking about in terms of economic investment across the country for energy production, no one is accounting the actual harm that is coming our way because we keep investing in dirty fuels.

Chipping away government in order to make it as ineffective as possible, and then complaining that they can't do their job...

Air knows no borders.

None. I mean, quite the opposite, right?

I can't identify a single thing.

This fund is specifically meant to make sure that low-income and people of color have access to those funds.

The idea is that you are leaving out the science, and at the same time you are ramming the most dangerous alternatives out there down communities' throats.

We are all going to end up suffering.

It would be extremely destructive, not only because of the--I mean, one is the climate emissions that they would--that they bring about.

The less they have to rely on those dirty fuels, the less poisoned air they have to breathe.

It is imperative that the protections that we have stay in the books.

The idea here is that we have to make sure that the energy that we produce is clean, but the manufacturing that goes into the creation of that clean energy also has to be clean, and it has to protect communities themselves.

What is the cost of a human life? What is the cost that that poison is going to inflict on a human being?

They give us a false choice between having healthy communities, a healthy environment, and energy security.

If they are acting responsibly, why do they want to waive the laws that hold them accountable to acting responsibly?

Absolutely not. We don't have to choose. We can absolutely do both.

While we are doing more recycling of these minerals... we are doing it in a way that it is safe.