countries that have empowered women generally do better on everything from how they deal with human rights to a democracy scale.

I would argue that that doesn't seem to be our view with respect to fossil fuels like oil and gas and nuclear.

Energy efficiency is the number one job creator within the clean energy economy and accounts for three out of four American clean energy jobs.

I have a letter here, Mr. Chairman, which I would like to submit for the record from the Government Accountability Office.

I was disappointed to see that the President's budget cut the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy by more than 65 percent.

So how hard is it to address that kind of challenge when we have a President here in the United States in the White House who has refused to acknowledge Russian interference in elections in the United States and really throughout the world?

I think this is an effort that requires everyone in democracies, in the international community, in the free world, to point out the threat that is posed to all of us.

I am pleased to join Senator Menendez, the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and my colleagues from the committee to talk about the importance of diplomacy as we look at the many challenges and conflicts that the…

I am pleased to join my colleague from Washington to talk about the challenge that women both here in the United States and across the world are facing from the excesses of this administration. What we have seen time and again is that the…

One of the reasons that they have been as successful as they have, I would argue, is because women have played an equal role in that society as it has been rebuilt.

I think they are really important.

when you raised the concerns about needing to respond to what Russia is doing to interfere with the potential elections coming up in 2018, that what you heard from the President was that you should do whatever you needed to, to thwart that.