"I am a pragmatic person. Having had a sister that died of a drug overdose and a father that was a drug addict, I have a very natural reaction."
"I don't want to interrupt, but I am going to have you give us more answers because I have only got 2 minutes left."
"The American worker is the backbone of this country."
"Thank you, Chairman Tonko and Ranking Member Shimkus, for holding this important hearing today to discuss the urgent threat from climate change we all face and the Federal inaction from this administr..."
"We know sea levels are rising. We know average temperatures are warming. We know ice is disappearing at alarming rates."
"The international community recognizes climate change as the generation threat that it is and multiple scientific reports have called on the need to act over the next decade to mitigate serious harms ..."
"Earth's climate is now changing faster than at any point in the history of modern civilization."
"And yet, this administration choses to do nothing."
"Since the administration withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement, cities and States, like Ann Arbor and Michigan, have been forced to rise up in the absence of needed Federal leadership on..."
"John Dingell loved this committee. He thought the work that they did was very important, and I hear him in my ear going, 'Woman, get on,' and hearing him in the ears of everybody, 'Work together for t..."
"Public lands are key to the economic and ecological health of Michigan."
"The need for action is clear--we must work to address climate change without delay by taking strong and decisive action at the Federal level."