"We need predictable and sustainable reimbursement models."
"Climate change will affect the global economy and so the financial system that supports it, the financial risks it presents are inconsequence systemwide."
"Thank you. Let me thank so many colleagues for attending. Let me thank the witnesses for a truly, I think, useful and important hearing."
"we actually are in a position to put very strong encouragements on China and India and other heavily carbon-intensive polluting countries."
"When it's free to pollute, polluters will pollute."
"I do extend my sympathies to Florida on what is going on down there in the insurance markets, which seem to be very distressed"
"I am certain that the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017 also known as the Trump Tax Law, remains divisive in the United States Senate."
"Senator Whitehouse has sponsored legislation as one promising way forward."
"My sincere hope is that every Senator here understands the significant incentives multinationals have over domestic companies by paying half the corporate rate on their overseas profits."
"it's also unfair because it builds a bias in favoring big companies."
"The fossil fuel annual subsidy in the U.S. every year is over $600 billion from the International Monetary Fund."