"Climate change will increase the risk of unhealthy air quality."
"The consequences of inaction on climate change will be serious and swift."
"We cannot and should not dismiss its findings."
"Today's hearing on persistent gender based wage discrimination addresses the very injustice that is facing millions of working families."
"We heard how gender wage discrimination has far reaching and long term effects for our economy, our children and our families."
"The science is clear. ... consequences of inaction on climate change will be serious and swift."
"Unfortunately, loopholes and insufficient enforcement have allowed wage discrimination to persist."
"With this legislation we have the opportunity to disrupt a national cycle of discriminatory pay that keeps too many women and families in poverty."
"By addressing the problematic loopholes in current law, by empowering workers to better detect and combat wage discrimination and by creating mechanisms for better pay data transparency we can restore..."
"It is important to keep in mind as we have this conversation about the Raise the Wage Act, which I am proud to support, that the increase is phased in."
"I am proudly cosponsoring because this is a long overdue conversation about gradually increasing the Federal minimum wage to $15 an hour."