Cori Bush

If we actually want to decarbonize the country as we have promised to do, by rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, then we need to invest substantially more in deep decarbonization efforts.

St. Louis and I are here today to highlight the urgent need for new investments in renewable, reliable energy.

A high utility bill meant I had to choose between paying off my electric bill or buying food for my babies.

These high bills made my family struggle. When we want to talk about understanding economic justice or environmental justice, let us talk to people who actually experience it.

It is clearer than ever that our best path to energy security is to rapidly diminish our reliance on fossil fuels.

This country has more guns than people.

In 2020, per capita murder rates were 40 percent higher in states won by Donald Trump than those won by Joe Biden.

The shooter failed an FBI background check, and his own mother had concerns, but his gun was unable to be confiscated.

Gun violence is now the leading cause of death among children.

Gun violence is now the leading cause of death for children and teenagers in the United States.

But gun violence may, as we have seen, be a political tool for some of my Republican colleagues, but it is a matter of actual life or death, especially for Black and Brown communities.

We are asking for reasonable restrictions.

Our work is about saving people's lives.

Weak Republican laws are flooding communities with guns that are killing people.

Contrary to what some of my Republican colleagues might say, evidence shows that more guns lead to more shootings.

Despite these appalling statistics, congressional Republicans... have allowed our communities to be flooded with guns of every kind.

I am stunned, I am almost in a sense of pain because we have had over 100 mass shootings only since the beginning of 2023.

Gun violence is a public health emergency, and commonsense regulations are a necessity.

Energy security is about dramatically reducing our reliance on fossil fuels whose consumption disproportionately harms low-income families and communities of color.

Of course, I believe that the best way to avoid similar challenges in the future is to end our reliance on oil.

We must make massive investments in climate jobs and environmental justice and, frankly, this is a need that is overdue.

Vladimir Putin put fossil fuel workers in the U.S. out of work and Vladimir Putin made it unaffordable to get to and from work in 2022.

But my Republican colleagues have unironically invited for-profit think tank and oil titans whose expertise is in maximizing profits, especially at the expense of our Black, our Brown, and our indigenous neighbors' health, safety, and…

If House Republicans actually cared about preventing an energy and economic crisis from happening, they will commit to investing in renewable energy.

It hides the shared concerns raised by Republicans and Democrats alike about the vast power, impunity, and lack of accountability of social media platforms.