Suzanne Bonamici

Building a resilient clean energy economy using our climate action plan will help boost our economic recovery as well.

Last year I joined my colleagues on the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis in releasing a bold, comprehensive, science-based climate action plan to reach net zero emissions no later than mid-century.

Extreme heat events like the unprecedented temperatures we had here in Oregon that killed 116 Oregonians last month are expected to increase in frequency and intensity because of the climate crisis.

These dangerous temperatures, combined with a thin snowpack and below average precipitation, are really raising alarms about our upcoming wildfire season.

I urge all of my colleagues to stand up for older workers and to support this bipartisan, bicameral bill.

I am thrilled to have a public-school champion leading our efforts.

I would never be here providing a better life for my kids if I stopped.

We must enact the American Jobs Plan, the American Families Plan and a comprehensive reauthorization of child nutrition programs.

No child in this country should go hungry regardless of whether or not we're facing a devastating pandemic.

I was recently having a conversation with an adult here in Oregon who said her sister still remembers in elementary school running around the house trying to find pennies because she was supposed to bring money to school and the stress…

I am hopeful that as we keep these priorities in mind--providing healthy meals that students will eat, allowing wholesome foods like cheese to remain on students' plates, and reforming existing programs to address gaps in coverage--that we…

I hope we can all work together and make some good changes to programs like the Summer Food Service Program, Farm to School, and other existing programs to address the gaps in service that exist before we just layer on new programs.

Providing nutrition support after school and during the summer is also critical as students recover from a year of lost classroom time.

The American Families Plan would provide for more than 9 million additional children access to free meals...

Today we will focus on the steps we must take to make that aspiration a reality, specifically reauthorizing Federal child nutrition programs...

Although food insecurity has fallen, we know our work is far from over.

Sadly, child hunger remains a national crisis, particularly in the aftermath of COVID19.

Consistent access to nutritious food is a moral imperative, and an economic necessity.

As elected leaders one of our most basic responsibilities is to make sure that children have enough to eat.

I'm very grateful for your leadership and the steadfast commitment from the Biden administration to make workers a priority.

I'm going to reintroduce my bipartisan Blue Globe Act with my fellow co-Chair of the House Oceans Caucus, Congressman Young.

I look forward to working with my colleagues on this Committee, with the leadership at NOAA, and the scientific community to protect and preserve the ocean.

The ocean drives our economy, feeds, employs, and transports us, and the power of its waves generates clean energy.

We know, as you've established in the testimony, that every person on this planet benefits from a healthy ocean.

Congress can really help by fostering those connections, and emphasizing partnerships, and actually funding partnerships that work effectively.