Political Quotes

“I, along with my colleague Senator Rosen, am pleased to be able to speak out today. We have both been working throughout our time here in the U.S. Senate to support Nevada's booming renewable energy industry, including our solar sector for so many of the reasons that my friend and colleague Senator Rosen highlighted right now. There is one thing that is important to also understand, and I want to put this in perspective. In 2020, I helped to secure extensions of the investment tax credit and the residential renewable energy tax credit for solar so that we could increase private sector investments in this critical sector. What has happened is, with this investigation--and don't get me wrong, and I think all of my colleagues feel the same way--that under the statute, under the code, the Commerce Department has every right to investigate this circumvention petition. That is not the issue that, for me, we are coming here today. What we are asking the administration to do, at least from my perspective, is pursuant to that very statute, under sub (f), the administrator--in this case, the Department of Commerce and their incredible staff, which they do have working on this--are required to make a determination within 300 days of the petition being filed--within 300 days of the petition being filed. What we are asking is for that swift determination to be made.…”