I do like President Biden's budget with his commitments on climate change, environmental protection, justice, community, resilience, and they are not empty gestures.

Methylene chloride, a paint stripper, still, no action.

After 10 years of painful budget caps, EPA's budget today is 25 percent lower in real dollars, than its fiscal year 2010 funding level.

Well, I hope that every day you can spend part of the day calling and pushing to get TCSA underway.

We are taking the wildfire smoke very serious, which is why in this budget we are asking for an increase in our air quality monitoring system.

Is it fair for me to describe environmental justice as a recognition that pollutants are often concentrated in low-income communities, and communities of color, and we need to make a special effort to address that challenge and remedy that…

We want to protect the environment.

I will just say that, despite Oregon's recycling, because it has a returnable deposit on bottles, it still--it still recycles only a very small proportion of plastics.

It is an essential step environmental protection funding that enables a robust response to the threats communities face across our Nation.

We also need to help communities live with better health, when there is smoke as there is regularly.

In Oregon, and all over United States and the world, climate chaos is a fact of life.

Last summer, devastating wildfires incinerated several of the towns in my home State of Oregon, destroying hundreds of homes, leveling businesses to the ground, tragically killing 11 individuals.

Often we think about electric vehicles might work well for passenger vehicles, but maybe not for heavy machinery.

We see the beaches in Oregon covered, we see marine life that is dying because their guts are full of plastic.

These levels would help reverse the funding and staffing losses EPA has suffered.

It is now estimated that each of us, because of how microplastics now permeate our air, water and food, eat the equivalent, or consume the equivalent of a credit card's worth of plastic every week.

Are you familiar with the term 'wish-cycling'?

I condemn Hamas' use of the rockets against Israel, but I am also concerned about Israel undermining the possibility for peace.

Do you support diplomats from the United States not attending the 2022 Olympics while China is engaged in genocide?

The previous Administration and State Department under Secretary Pompeo found that China was engaged in genocide in its treatment of the Uyghur community.

I rise to support amendment No. 2103, which addresses a very important issue in the world, which is the issue of governments that undertake to destroy populations, either in other countries or within their own country; that is, to commit…

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Amendment No. 2103

I think your answer was essentially, yes, it is funds.

I am anxious to both see the mobile biochar report that you referred to and to actually do a little bit of research to make sure to understand better the results of this experiment.

Twenty-five percent of that backlog in Oregon is of high hazard.