Garret Graves

What would you say to the family members of people in Louisiana that lost loved ones, when your legislation would actually take future investments in the restoration of our coast and the protection of these communities?

There is this concept out there, there is this belief out there, Mr. Chairman, for many folks on the other side that the target, or the enemy is the energy source.

But this legislation really doesn't even do that. And I think we all know that.

I will be willing to make a bet or wager with my friend right now that I can produce evidence showing that that is exactly the case in history.

I don't think it is fair to take shots at state-managed fisheries.

Lastly, Mr. Speaker, I want to thank a number of people who were really instrumental in helping us to strike this bipartisan balance: Mike Leonard with the American Sportfishing Association; Cmac, with the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation…

It is extremely important to take the regulatory burdens out of the way of building new clean energy as rapidly as possible

Ranking Member Graves' BUILDER Act, H.R. 8333, for example, introduced last week, would remove barriers and accelerate the deployment of clean energy technologies.

These very outdated notions which cut against climate change and a solution to this problem, that seems just very counterproductive

I just think we have to be really thoughtful about the international implications and the affordability and exportability of the solution.

I don't think you could deploy renewable technologies fast enough

Our concern with the resolution is that it actually supports or it embraces an agreement that would result in a net increase in global emissions.

Does it make sense to put the country through the economic devastation that these policies would create instead of investing more in adaptation and resilience

Thankfully, just today, the President has issued an executive order related to critical minerals.

How do you have a business, how do you take care of your family, how can you even live there--as I understand, we have seen a net departure of families from California--if you are having rolling blackouts and brownouts?

How can we provide business certainty and encourage folks to create new small businesses if we are having double the electricity cost in California than they do, for example, in my home state of Louisiana?

I share your frustration with the Corps' rigidity, especially as that dogmatic approach results in negative impacts to ecosystems.

You stated that unsubsidized wind and solar (no ITC/PTC) are the cheapest forms of new energy.

That is entirely inappropriate.

I believe that Mr. Huffman, Mr. Casten, and Mr. Levin all effectively accused us of not telling the truth.

I will review the document that Mr. Casten mentioned.

We are dependent upon China for 17 critical minerals today. Eighty percent of the rare earths we are dependent upon China for.

The Biden climate plan, which largely reflects the one the committee put forth, it didn't include any labor representatives, any business representatives in the team that was devising that plan.

Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you very much for the opportunity for the certainly appropriate honoring of John Lewis.