In my district, I represent Rikers Island. I represent kids who go to jail for jumping a turnstile because they can't afford a Metro card.

I do want to commend you for your decision, and Chase's decision to pull out of financing for private prisons.

Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak on this bill. First, I would like us to clarify exactly some of the things that we are able to deliver in this bill: One is low-income taxpayer exception to the Private Debt Collection program. The second is…

the fossil fuel industry and corporate lobbyists and misleading the public about the scientific consensus on climate change.

they knew about the scientific basis of the greenhouse effect. They knew that this was true, but... their primary goal was to sow doubt.

there's been a coordinated effort to confuse the American public about dire threats to their health and livelihoods.

So these lobbyists were literally sitting right outside?

It seems from what we have dug up in history, that is absolutely true, is that some of the first scientists to sound the alarm about climate change came from within ExxonMobil.

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I would encourage my colleagues to actually read the resolution presented so that they can speak to it responsibly and respectfully.

The fact that subsidies for fossil fuel corporations are somehow smart but subsidies for the development of solar panels is 'socialist' is just bad faith and it is incorrect.