"Can you come up with a paper lid to replace this plastic lid on a McDonald's cup? Because the world would bless you."
"Extended producer responsibility, I appreciate your focusing on it and highlighting it, because there are many different forms it can come in, but I think that is essential."
"We are now each consuming, it is estimated, a credit card of plastic every week in our food and our air and water."
"The Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act introduced by Senator Merkley--thank you, Senator Merkley--is the high water mark for EPR as articulated above."
"How do we make sure that every citizen has access to the ballot when state after state after state, 18 states and 30 laws so far are designed to prevent targeted groups from being able to vote?"
"The question that we have is for a large part of the caucus, this number, $3.5 trillion was already a compromise."
"Senator Manchin was focused on the numbers this weekend. His concerns about inflation."
"I really believe that we have to before the month of October is out, we have to get this voting rights legislation done."
"They`re too invested -- they support billionaires buying elections. They support gerrymandering to distort the representation of Americans in Congress."
"After all the integrity of our elections is fundamental to our constitution, fundamental to our republic and this should be something that all hundred senators should sign on to."
"We have a significant responsibility. We have the chaos of war in combination with the pandemic and general disruption in the country, and it is a moral responsibility to provide assistance."