we're working with fishing communities due to--you may be aware that some of the crabbers off the Oregon coast now include dissolved oxygen sensors on their crab pots

For many years now hypoxic zones have been observed in the coastal waters off the Pacific Northwest.

I want to ask you about the Climate Council. The council reflects, of course, as you mentioned, the Biden Administration's whole of government approach.

There's a growing college affordability crisis in this country, and it started long before the pandemic.

We know that the Pell Grant delivers critical financial support to make college accessible, especially for our most historically disenfranchised students.

We must recognize that the devastating heat dome disproportionately affected vulnerable communities, like the low-income neighborhoods that became heat islands.

How can this hyperlocal data help to confirm investments that will improve the resilience of our communities for future extreme heat events?

Most heat related deaths are preventable, and we owe it to their families and friends to take action that will prevent further loss of life.

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

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.

We've woven environmental justice throughout the plan.

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.

I know that our transition to a clean energy economy must support workers, and I'm working on a bill to establish a National Economic Transition Office.

1 year ago today, I joined my colleagues on the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis and we released our bold, comprehensive, science-based climate action plan. Our plan is a roadmap for solving the climate crisis, and I am thrilled that…

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

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

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

I thank Chairman Scott for yielding and for his leadership on this important legislation. I rise in strong support of the bipartisan Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act. My home State of Oregon has one of the most rapidly…

I thank Mr. Casten for yielding. And thank you to Chair Castor, chair of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, for her leadership throughout this process. It really has been science-based and meaningful. Mr. Speaker, as we work to…

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

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

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

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…