"If you understand New York geography, northern Appalachia, what we found--and this is a critical issue for the committee and for the administration--is that the more disadvantaged the community, the more painful and slow the recovery."
"A major challenge remains with the power grid, and here, as you can imagine, virtually everything relies on electricity."
"opening statement"
"In my view, the discussion draft before us today doesn't pass the smell test."
"I want to stress the importance of preserving the opportunity for citizen suits when necessary."
"Sometimes we hear about citizen suits as a sort of bogeyman, but these suits can be valuable to actually enforcing the requirements that we passed into law and empowering ordinary people to protect th..."
"Given the conclusions of these impartial scientists and the widely accepted consensus that climate change is real and primarily driven by human activity, I urge all members of this Committee to move f..."
"Restoring services is absolutely critical, but we also need to acknowledge the risks of this happening again."
"We have seen a lot of effort in New York to build a more resilient grid."
"The fiscally sensible approach is to acknowledge the risk posed by extreme weather and to make the necessary investments."
"This is not a choice between pay now or pay later."