Political Quotes

“Thank you, Madam President. I want to start by thanking my friend, the Senator from Rhode Island, Mr. Whitehouse, for his leadership on addressing the climate issue for many, many years, taking to the floor of the Senate time and again to raise the alarm about the dangers of climate change and what it means to communities throughout this country and people throughout the world, and, much more than that, putting forward very specific ideas--constructive ideas--on how we can address this issue together. I am proud to join the legislation that he referenced, along with Senator Barrasso, to look at carbon capture technologies and to incentivize those technologies, as Mr. Whitehouse indicated. It is a small measure but maybe a first baby step that we can work on here together. Like the Senator from Rhode Island, I have been listening carefully to the floor discussion over the last couple of weeks. I have heard many of our Republican colleagues come to the floor. They have come to criticize the Green New Deal. The Green New Deal, of course, is a very ambitious set of goals to address the crisis of global climate change and to put out some ideas for how we address this generational challenge. While I heard a lot of criticism, as Senator Whitehouse said, I didn't hear a single--not one--idea about how we can work together to significantly address this challenge, which is why Democrats have asked our Republican colleagues to join us in supporting S. J. Res.…”