Political Quotes

“before we begin, I would like to thank Paige Rodrigues, who first came to my office 5 years ago and has been working tirelessly over all of that time, working to protect the people of Massachusetts and the people of our country and our entire planet from the effects of climate change and environmental threats to our country and to our planet. She is heading off to law school, and we will miss her. We will miss her brilliant work and her continual devotion to building a better world for everyone, because this world is under immediate threat. Earlier this month, we experienced what might have been Earth's hottest day in 125,000 years. You heard that right: the hottest day in 125,000 years. And we are living through it right now. In Phoenix, AZ, the temperature has been 110 degrees or higher for nearly 3 weeks in a row. The water off of the coast of Florida is now nearing 100 degrees. The water is boiling in our oceans off of our coastlines. On July 15, nearly one in three Americans was living under an extreme heat alert. We are living under a heat dome right now in our Nation. The forest fires in Canada are sending fumes down across our country. It is like an exhaust pipe from an automobile just sending these toxic fumes down across our country day after day, week after week, from Canada, from their forest fires right above us. This year, we have experienced 17 of the hottest days ever recorded. This is nothing short of a public health crisis in our country.…”