The air is too polluted for kids to be able to go to school and learn.

Do you believe, as the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco wrote recently, that climate change is a serious risk to the financial system?

I would call this gaslighting. That is kind of what we call it in the neighborhood.

Our country's overreliance on fossil fuels has a disproportionate burden on poor and vulnerable communities like mine.

I want--folks, don't say that you are committed to clean and sustainable financing because your companies' words are not consistent with your actions.

Do you believe that lump sum retirement payments shortchange our retirees as they would be getting far less than they would have received over time with their pensions?

I would recommend that you look at the Government Accountability Office, who reported that retirees who take lump sum payments could see their assets drop, and Forbes estimates that by choosing the lump sum payment, retirees could receive…

Our 12 years is here now, and that's how I feel when we talk about climate change.

I'm really concerned about the fossil fuel industry and others, which are continued to poison our national conversation and stop meaningful Federal action on climate change.

It starts with us in this chamber to take leadership and accepting the science is real and it is true.

I want to share a story. I used to walk down my block for over 30 years.

I could not agree more, and I can tell you, you know, it starts with us in this chamber to take leadership.