the President said he campaigned on fighting for working people, and this is working for working people, and it sounds like you are going to go in and say, 'No, do not help working people. Help big banks.'

In 2001, President Bush's tax cut, did it increase or decrease revenue?

So if you review the numbers and you see that this is a falsehood, this argument, this kind of magic gift, if we can cut taxes for the rich and powerful but somehow it will increase revenue, if you find that that is false, will you take…

But it actually was designed this way, in fact, so it would be accountable, and you have to understand that the reason why is because ordinary citizens have very little power compared to the fabulous power concentrated in Wall Street.

This is part of an enduring discussion about tactics in the United States.

I do feel like perhaps you don't understand the gravity of the situation, from your response.

Yes, it is very logical, you can do it in the laboratory, as Senator Whitehouse noted, that carbon dioxide traps heat.

Do you acknowledge sending this letter to the EPA in October 2011?

the key to this is that by implementing that, by the time it is implemented, it would save annually 230,000--an estimate of course--asthma attacks among children, 160,000 missed school days, a tremendous number of missed work days, 630…

I hope you will consider that and that some of these questions are not simple questions, but they are incredibly profound questions.

Are you aware that methane is approximately 30 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a global warming gas?

Climate change is a wide-ranging national security challenge for the U.S. over the next 20 years.

I believe you are acknowledging in that, which I am glad to hear, that it is a serious problem and that the EPA, that carbon dioxide is a pollutant and we have a legal obligation to take it on.

the majority of Americans believe that the U.S. should stay in the Paris Agreement.

None of these standards, when they are set, are attained. That is the point.

The beauty of the Senate is we get to have our own opinions.

Why fight so hard on the side of the oil industry rather than fighting on the side of the health of the people of Oklahoma?

I, as a Senator from Oregon, fighting for the quality of life of Oregonians, deeply resent folks fighting for oil industry that are trying to damage the health of my constituents and Americans across this country.

If you go to a doctor and they say you have cancer, you decide you had better get a second opinion.

In my home State you have an impact on the oysters, because the Pacific Ocean is 30 percent more acidic than it was before we started burning coal.

On a 1 to 10 scale, how concerned are you about the impacts of fugitive methane in driving global warming?

If human civilization doesn't get it together very quickly, we are in very deep trouble.

I believe I have the floor. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I believe I have the floor. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The majority leader has the floor. Mr. McCONNELL. Just to let everybody know, all I am doing is setting up a vote for Tuesday…

I reserve the right to object. Mr. President, I was very gracious in agreeing to a unanimous consent request that would grant me 10 minutes. That was cut short by the filibuster of my colleague, who repeatedly brought me into the…

I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Duly noted. The bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading and was read the third time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The bill having been read the third time, the question is, Shall it pass? Mr…