"Thank you. Mr. Chair, I'd like to submit to the congressional Record two documents..."
"So people just throw out the term $32 billion. That is what is owed to New York City's Housing Authority alone, $32 billion."
"Vector-borne diseases will be pretty detrimental to the U.S."
"Well, for more than 2 decades, the Federal Government neglected to make the New York City Housing Authority's (NYCHA's) developments--they failed to invest in them for more than 400,000 New Yorkers."
"I think it is so important that that gets across, because there is no way that we can develop a plan, there's no way that I think you can develop a plan that is realistic unless we lift this burdensom..."
"China is the world's leading country in electricity production from renewable energy sources."
"Dr. Goldstein, according to your written testimony, the last five years have been the hottest days on record for air and ocean temperatures."
"There are areas in the country that previously may see diseases that they've never seen before."
"In the aftermath of some of these major natural disasters, the survivors, and particularly young people, tend to see mental health costs."
"We are not debating whether climate change is real and we are not debating any of those attendant effects."
"I spent a brief amount of time living in West Africa and there I had actually contracted malaria."