Jeff Merkley

China has committed to deploying as much renewable energy in the next 15 years equal to all the electricity generated by the United States currently.

The Clean Power Plan is a subset of our Nation's efforts to control carbon dioxide.

They have also announced that they are launching a cap and trade system nationally in 2017.

If you are going to reduce enough, you have to leave a lot of the identified fossil fuel reserves... in the ground.

There is a window of opportunity here that is important as part of this worldwide perspective, leave it in the ground.

The temperature of the planet would still increase by more than 6 degrees Fahrenheit.

But in terms of the inspections you mentioned and the ability to kind of have teeth, that matters.

I have heard from constituents and that there are concerns that foreign businesses may not be as closely monitored as U.S. businesses.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

The Food Safety Modernization Act... was the most sweeping update of our food safety laws in nearly 70 years.

Thank you very much, Chairman.

So, Mr. Taylor, you mentioned the foreign inspections, and FSMA mandated 600 inspections in 2011, with a doubling of the previous year's inspection level for the subsequent 5 years, which would mean that in fiscal year 2015, we would have…

I am just going to cut to the chase and say I am glad it is going to have this guidance.

America has and continues to have the safest food supply in the world.

I was reading an article recently about the ponds where shrimp are farmed on land in Asia and where massive amounts of antibiotics are used to control the various diseases that are rampant in those ponds.

I think one of those areas that the funding is impacting the United States is in filling those foreign offices.

Now we are working to make sure that we prevent that outbreak from occurring in the first place.

This is profoundly important. It is why I want us to listen to the advice of the leading scientific institutions.

My amendment simply states, as a finding of this body, that Congress should take under due consideration the advice from leading scientific institutions in the United States that global warming is real and due to human activity.

Observations throughout the world make it clear that climate change is occurring, and rigorous scientific research demonstrates that greenhouse gases emitted by human activities are the primary driver.

This bill says when it is certified that the proposed legislation will not have further impact in damaging our States, it can go into effect.

It has been noted how higher sea level is already occurring in ways that are causing beach erosion, it means storm surges are that much higher and certainly the erosion of the coastal area is a very significant concern in my home State of…

In my home State, we have our rural resources under direct attack by changing climate.

The severity of climate change impacts is expected to increase substantially in the coming decades.

If it is human activity, it is within our reach to modify our activities.