Melanie Stansbury

It's a little strange to see people lecturing about the evils of carbon emissions on planes, and then flying their own jets.

Food security is very important and fossil fuels are needed for fertilizers.

Is displacing American energy-intensive manufacturing and sending it to China, does that help the environment at all?

There has not been a ban on energy production in the United States.

We are doing a great job here of being energy independent.

We know that we have to take climate action now, and it is our job to ensure that we create a more sustainable, a more just, and a more equitable future for our communities.

The oil and gas industry is not struggling in the United States, and certainly that is not what is driving prices at the pump, as our colleagues across the aisle would like to have us believe.

We in the Majority, the Democrats during the last Congress, passed the most significant infrastructure and climate action bills ever in the history of the United States, including the Inflation Reduction Act, which is really aimed at…

The science is telling us and the latest report from the IPCC has indicated that if we do not take climate action now, our planet is facing a major nexus in terms of potential planetary disaster.

The Republican's proposed budget cuts... would require at least a 22 percent budget reduction for IHS.

Because everywhere I go in Indian Country, I hear over and over again, we do not have enough doctors, nurses, and health technicians.

What is especially amazing about this is how radically out of touch it is with the American public.

It is amazing to me to see the kinds of attacks we have seen on American freedom by the Majority, attacks on our bodies, banning books, and now we are talking about banning the way that businesses are able to invest their own capital in…

I have watched and listened today and seen as this hearing has devolved into yet another crusade in the political culture wars.

I think, Mr. Frerichs, as you have indicated, I think, in your testimony, we have to follow the money, and the reality is, is that this is a well-coordinated and political attack.

So, my question is why on earth is the GOP waging a war on ESG, especially when it is so completely unpopular with American corporations, the market, investors, American voters?

I actually welcome the discussion today on sustainable investing.

Thank you for having this hearing. This is exactly the kind of hearing that this Committee should be having is actual oversight and the fiscal responsibilities of the Federal Government.

This is exactly the kind of hearing that this Committee should be having is actual oversight and the fiscal responsibilities of the Federal Government.

We really need to make sure that all of our basin states come together in good faith, and that we do not have a Federal takeover of our waters on the Colorado.

Will you commit to working with us here in Congress to make sure we get full funding to address that backlog?

These pieces of legislation... were really designed to tackle three crises that the United States was facing

To help modernize our national labs, which the Department of Energy oversees, to update our science and innovation

It actually made me think of the movie Mean Girls and the quote 'stop trying to make fetch happen.'

The CHIPS Act to address our national security issues around the manufacturing of CHIPS