Chellie Pingree: “There is a lot of alarmism going on because we are facing a significant climate crisis. We just had the hottest summer…”

“There is a lot of alarmism going on because we are facing a significant climate crisis. We just had the hottest summer on record. We are having some of the most challenging weather, whether it is a hurricane or a drought or flooding, impacting all of us in all of our districts. We are facing this and trying to end our dependence on foreign sources of energy by making sure that we have renewable energy in this country, by investing in American businesses, not Chinese owned, not other foreign countries, but making sure as we did through the IRA that we are investing in American manufacturing and American energy solutions. Most of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle oppose this. They continue to oppose the solutions that we have to implement to make sure that we are energy independent and that we can deal with climate change. This is one more example of that. Mr. Chair, I encourage my colleagues to reject this amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.”