Political Quotes

“Mr. President, as the Senate considers the minibus appropriations bill setting funding levels for fiscal year 2024, as Budget chairman, I want the record to reflect that I filed the requisite statements in the record adjusting the appropriations topline, known as the 302(a)s, to allow this bill to proceed. It complies with the spending agreement reached in January between the Senate majority leader and the Speaker of the House. This bill has major wins for workers, families, and for our climate safety. First, it resisted House Republicans' attempts to include harmful anti-environmental riders. These toxic anti-environment poison pills have no place in any bipartisan spending deal. They have nothing to do with Federal spending; they are backdoor attempts to jam through unpopular legislation that would never withstand the scrutiny of regular order. Second, this bill continues funding our clean energy future. It includes nearly $1.7 billion to continue nuclear energy research and development, including funds for microreactors and accident-tolerant fuels; $60 million for DOE's new Grid Deployment Office to aid in the development of much needed interregional electric transmission; more than $950 million for industrial decarbonization to make American companies more competitive in the global marketplace and address major sources of greenhouse gas emissions; and $137 million for Department of Energy's Wind Energy Technologies Office to accelerate the deployment of wind energy.…”