Suzanne Bonamici

We know that weather events are increasing in frequency and severity because of climate change.

This suggests that methane emissions from oil and gas sector are likely far greater than the official data indicates.

The true scale of methane emissions from the oil and gas sector is extremely concerning.

We cannot fulfill our responsibility to put children's best interests first, if juvenile justice and child welfare systems ultimately funnel young people into the criminal justice system.

One of our most basic responsibilities we have as Members of Congress, and in fact one of the most meaningful acts we can take, is to make it possible for every child in America to lead a healthy and productive life.

I join my colleagues in seeking additional oversight action from the Inspector General of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Our discussion and our commitment to strengthening the juvenile justice and child welfare systems must be treated with the urgency this important issue demands.

I urge my colleagues in the Senate to take it up, to follow through on our promise to protect our Nation's children from abuse.

I thank Representative Gottheimer for his amendment and for his leadership in addressing the needs of our country's veterans. Madam Speaker, this amendment will help community action agencies meet the needs of veterans, particularly…

I am prepared to close, and I continue to reserve the balance of my time.

I have a lot to say in response to the gentleman, but I am going to take a deep breath and say, this is a bill about helping to lift low-income Americans out of poverty. It is a bipartisan bill we have been working on for many years. It is…

Offshore wind has the potential to create thousands of high-quality jobs and decarbonize our electricity sector.

We understand now that climate change is caused by human activity and that it exacerbates extreme weather events and natural disasters.

Unfortunately, our discussion and the testimony today confirm that for far too many women, or people of color, or older workers, workers with disabilities, LGBTQI+ workers, they are still experiencing persistent discrimination in the…

We all know that investing in energy efficiency lowers household and business energy costs, reduces emissions, and mitigates the effect of climate change, including on respiratory health.

Tribal Nations are not stakeholders. A stakeholder is a member of the public. Tribal Nations are nations.

It needs to be decolonized, this process. So we need to all sit at the table as equals.

We need to have government-to-government relationships.

I look forward to hearing more from Dr. Eisenberg, and I thank her for being here today.

Thank you, Chair Castor.

I look forward to working with you, your question to Dr. Spinrad, let me know, and I'm happy to collaborate again.

Thank you so much to the Chair and Ranking Member, and thank you to the witnesses for your testimony and your expertise.

I thought the comment was unnecessarily confrontational. We are here to have a debate about policy, not personal attacks.

We have no further speakers, but I want to address the package of en bloc amendments. Again, these amendments will improve the America COMPETES Act, which is so important for United States leadership and to incentivize and ramp up U.S…

We can help address the need for emergency food bank support by providing an additional $900 million for food purchases through TEFAP.