however loud, persistent, and powerful the climate denial operation has been, we have to remember that it has always been built on lies. It is a huge fortress of lies stacked upon lies--lies about the science, lies about the scientists…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for up to 10 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Climate Change

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The senior assistant legislative clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas…

I am very worried that the EPA will not do much enforcing of environmental laws during this Administration.

That may be the most disgraceful Senate process in the history of this body and it is certainly a closed door deal.

I think that the Environmental Protection Agency has, in a nutshell, been captured by a corporate polluter raiding party

I can remember once when our Republican colleagues were so sensitive to regular order in the Senate...

What do we do as a country when we see that monopolistic behavior?

When there is real competition, it tends to work.

The founding fathers' word for this would, I think, have been corruption.

Donald Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change. This is a decision that may prove to be one of the worst foreign policy blunders in our Nation's history. There is no denying the mounting…

I come to the Senate floor every year around this time to discuss an important incident in the history of Rhode Island largely overlooked in the history books, certainly overlooked in consequence to its importance. We have to understand…

Obviously, if you have to run the ability to even ask information requests through headquarters, that gives headquarters the chance to either just create massive institutional delay or even put the kibosh on an investigation from its very…

I am very pleased to join my colleagues, Senator Franken and Senator Warren, who are also here for this conversation that was kicked off earlier this afternoon by our friend and colleague from West Virginia, Senator Manchin. West Virginia…

I am here to discuss what you might call the Scott Pruitt philosophy of environmental regulation. In a recent interview, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency expressed his view that the EPA should ``simply pass…

Here, we often see the industry coming in and saying, oh, boy, look how much it is going to cost us to clean up and this is a terrible cost.

Polluters never want to reduce their pollution and regularly attack the Clean Air Act based on overblown costs that always ignore the other side of the ledger, the public health and other benefits of reducing pollution.

Rhode Island parents should not have to tell their children they cannot play outside on what looks like a perfect summer day because it is a bad air day caused by out-of-State, upwind pollution.

I think this Committee provides that opportunity, in the past under him and now under Chairman Barrasso.

As we are investing in coastal infrastructure, we need to also make sure we are investing in the planning and the data.

Coastal States are seeing a particular problem, particularly with the sea level rise projections that NOAA and that State coastal officials are predicting.

I hope that the Administration will not try to jam Congress on an infrastructure bill, but rather work in a bipartisan, bicameral fashion.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for adjournment occur following the remarks of the Democratic leader. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

as we know here in Washington, politics is a battlefield as much as it is a debating society. On this battlefield, a new form of political weapon has emerged, one for which the American political system was not well prepared. As Democrats…

There is no point building to a set of conditions that are not going to be the case in 20 years, not if you are building infrastructure.