I have an amendment at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 187, lines 11 through 22, strike section 507 of division A. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant…

I think one of the things that we are seeing here is that we are facing a choice. Congress is facing a choice of whether we want to give Wall Street another tool of being in charge of the public's money and payments, or whether we can…

It is such an honor to be here just over 2 years after we introduced the original Green New Deal resolution, which has now inspired a great deal of similar resolutions and Green New Deal resolutions adopted and introduced into…

The purpose of this hearing is the climate emergency. It is the climate crisis that we're confronting.

I thank the Chair for his courage and his political courage and for being willing to convene this in front of the Financial Services Committee.

I am a deep believer in popular and public education on these issues, so I invite all of you to consider me your climate auntie.

the American Jobs Plan needs to ensure not only early action on emissions and co-pollutant reductions in frontline communities

I realized that people don't even--a lot my colleagues don't even read the bills that they are commenting on.

Now, I think it is important for us to note this because this is not just about future investments.

When the standard has been used in New York, we have seen success.

Please make sure the American Jobs Plan is broad, too.

I urge all my colleagues, Republicans and Democrats, to work together to ensure that the ongoing climate emergency does not become a climate catastrophe.