The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has an important opportunity to strengthen our protections against lead by revising the Lead and Copper Rule.

I don't think we can undo the effects of lead exposure, so we have to do everything we can to prevent it.

Lead is a known toxin and Congress banned lead pipes in '86, but those pipes remain in the ground.

The science is clear--here is no safe level of lead exposure. The time for action is overdue.

Any final rule that fails to aggressively replace lead service lines will fail to solve the problem of lead in drinking water.

I don't have any more speakers other than myself at this time, so I am prepared to close.

To close. I would urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support this resolution. And in doing so, I would like to point to some of the whereas clauses of the actual resolution. It points out that the President has waged an…

We must bring the costs of carbon capture down.

This is a bipartisan bill introduced by Representatives Peters, McKinley and Veasey.

We will not make real progress in reducing climate pollution unless there is significant net storage associated with it.

I believe that the Department of Energy... should play a larger role.

We must develop and deploy technologies to capture and store carbon to prevent it from further elevating greenhouse gas pollution.