"Why don't we ask the oil and gas companies that made over $300 billion of profits last year to chip in to help solve the climate crisis that they have profited from?"
"Climate change is contributing to water scarcity."
"Do you agree that climate change is impacting the availability of water out West?"
"What is coming next is the request for taxpayer bailouts."
"I believe members of this Committee have called climate change a hoax or a scam."
"the working people in my district in Rhode Island are going to be asked to help pay to build the infrastructure to deal with these water shortages."
"Yes, I think that is an important point, that we stick with this principle that the average person not see increases under a system for fear of pricing."
"Ocean pollution is of great concern to my constituents in Rhode Island. It impacts our economy."
"I think especially when we look at things like access to rare earth minerals that are critical to our economy and other factors, those relationships with the global south are important."
"It is clear that the Chinese Communist Party is taking a whole-of-government approach to advancing its ambitions at the expense of U.S. and democratic interests, and therefore we must take a whole-of-..."
"Make no mistake, China is the competitor with the greatest combination of intent and capacity to threaten U.S. global leadership."