Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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

How Climate Change is Fueling the U.S. the U.S. Border Crisis

So they were kind of creating these second and third degree organizations so that they could distance themselves from the political damage of climate denial, but still fully participate and fund it.

Wow. Well, so it was almost like the lobbyists were the pitcher, and they were kind of giving these hand signals letting the delegates know what they can and cannot vote on based on lobbyists' interests.

It is fair to conclude that industry--fossil fuel industry lobbyists are largely responsible for our failure to act on climate change a generation ago

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.

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

Climate change is not just an environmental issue. It is also a crisis created by massive corporate corruption and misconduct.

Some of the first scientists to sound the alarm about climate change came from within ExxonMobil

The question is no longer whether someone will leave but when.

So I think what we have laid out here is a very clear moral problem, and in terms of leadership, if we fail to act, or even if we delay in acting, we will have blood on our hands.

In American history, when we have been presented with a threat on this scale, have we met that threat, the threat on the scale of climate change, have we met that within economic and mobilization on the scale of a war-time level…

So 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.

I think that ironically, despite that fixation, it does not seem that they have actually read the contents of the proposed and presented resolution.

So, you would recommend that we support the legislation that we are entertaining today on investor protection to make sure that shareholders can be protected as well?

I find this extremely concerning, that you can almost before misconduct happens already waive your right to seek justice in court.

So, I have a question here, if we do nothing about forced arbitration and allow this practice to continue, could this mean that information about how companies are deceiving the public about issues like climate change or any other could…

And even on a macroeconomic level, beyond the justice of it, beyond making sure that shareholders who have been damaged by this deception and misconduct can recoup their costs via class actions, do you think that this has overall…

Folks are suggesting that we are conducting foreign relations with folks with security clearances via WhatsApp. I mean, every day that we go on without getting to the bottom of this matter is a day that we are putting hundreds, if not…

I have some questions, particularly when we see how redlining functioned. It was in many ways and as we know now a very racially targeted policy.

Would you say that government policy, particularly centered around redlining, has contributed to the racial wealth gap?

What under the Fair Housing Act can we use to make sure that things like that don't happen?

Mr. Chair, I'm sorry, before we move on, could I seek unanimous consent to submit these documents?

And, Mr. Chair, I'd also like to note that, according to our committee staff, there is not compliance with (f)(3).