John Sarbanes: “the majority of Americans agree that climate change needs to be addressed now--not 10 years from now or 100 years from…”

This bill takes important steps to support the ongoing restoration of the Chesapeake Bay by reauthorizing NOAA's Chesapeake Bay Office and authorizing the agency's long-running Bay Watershed Education and Training, or B-WET Grant program.

Last year, as you know, Congress finally--finally, after many, many decades, really--took the historic step of standing up to Big Pharma and enacting policies that are already--we are seeing it--lowering healthcare costs for millions of…

I thank the ranking member for yielding. Mr. Chair, I rise in strong opposition to this bill. Today, we are arguing about a proposed Department of Energy efficiency standard for stoves, not just gas stoves, but every sort of kitchen stove…

But these are dramatic changes that can bring us to a new place and, I think, have given many people a sense of hope instead of despair in the face of what we are seeing with a warming planet.