We should not be delaying the start of the school year. Our children have lost far too much valuable learning time already.

Today's hearing demonstrates that climate change and public health, they are inextricably linked.

I think the time for small steps and half-measures is long time-over, it's expired. It is time for a Green New Deal.

I, along with numerous colleagues here on Oversight Committee, cosponsored H.R. 109, legislation recognizing the Federal Government's duty to create a Green New Deal.

The global climate crisis does pose an existential threat to our planet, and we are already experiencing it in dangerous and destructive impacts.

It is our job in Congress to confront these challenges.

Our constituents are paying for his leadership failure with their lives.

the disproportionate burden of air pollution and climate change effects have been in communities of color and in low-income communities.

And if Members of this body and this administration continue to ignore the science of climate change, what is at stake for mental and physical health of frontline communities in particular?

Today I rise on behalf of every Black man and Black boy who has been dehumanized, surveilled, and targeted by the policies drafted and debated within the walls of this very institution and institutions of power throughout our Nation. I…

We must not repeat exclusionary policies of past Federal responses.

The majority of minority-, immigrant-, and women-owned businesses are micro in size... they are the backbone of our local economies.