"Food security is very important and fossil fuels are needed for fertilizers."
"fossil fuels are going to be with us as far as the eye can see."
"shifting manufacturing and energy production offshore where there are more lenient rules for production is not helping."
"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 Reduct..."
"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 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."
"Because everywhere I go in Indian Country, I hear over and over again, we do not have enough doctors, nurses, and health technicians."
"The Republican's proposed budget cuts... would require at least a 22 percent budget reduction for IHS."
"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..."
"I have watched and listened today and seen as this hearing has devolved into yet another crusade in the political culture wars."
"What is especially amazing about this is how radically out of touch it is with the American public."