If we wait until next year, we are losing opportunity and people will suffer as a result.
we cannot sit here in the United States while there is such a moral crisis going on in South Sudan
every month that we wait for this administration to craft a policy and a strategy to deal with this issue is an absence of American leadersh...
the fact that there is an absence of U.S. political and diplomatic leadership is a serious problem
To execute that kind of aggressive strategy that you articulate, you got to have some kind of leadership guts and courage here in the United...
We will be pressing very hard that this administration lean on the wisdom that is being expressed by people like yourselves to institute a p...
Citizenship in the United States has tremendous blessings and privileges, and most of us luxuriate in rights that were fought for and strugg...
the reality is despite all of these really good efforts, we are barreling toward a crisis of global proportions.
I'm really grateful. This is an important hearing. It's an issue I've been pushing and pounding away on since I introduced a bill in the las...
the amount of plastics being poured into our oceans--the amount of plastics, period, has increased 20-fold in the last 50 years.
the need for behavior to change and the need for some of our societal norms to change