I just wanted to put in a word of appreciation for the Senators Chafee, father and son, who championed this brownfield legislation for so many years.

it is time not just for us to wake up but for the good guys to show up. Fossil fuel folks for years outright denied climate change and happily funded their array of denial front groups. That failed the tests of truth and decency, but at…

I thank the chairman for giving me this time at the end of the day and congratulate her on the progress that has been made with my senior Senator, Jack Reed, on this bill. This is the 137th time that I have addressed this body, asking us…

I just wanted to thank you and Senator Crapo and Senator Booker for the original work that moved us along.

Absolutely no one wants to see Federal money provide an excuse for redirecting other funding to wealthy, well-connected school districts.

Absolutely no one wants to see Federal money come in and provide an excuse to send other funding into wealthier, well-connected school districts and have title I fill the gap.

Everyone who I've talked to is very excited about this bipartisan bill and the opportunities it presents.

I am very pleased that ESSA steps away from that one-size-fits-all, overly prescriptive posture.

ESSA is a relief to many, especially in Rhode Island. Everyone who I've talked to is very excited about this bipartisan bill and the opportunities it presents.

Let me express first my appreciation to you for your interest and for this action on the problem of marine debris.

So this could come home to roost in Alaskan salmon or other fish?

Just before we sign off, I would like to offer each of these four witnesses the same opportunity offered Dr. Kurth, who is still here, which is to give us a highlight reel of up to, say, five recommendations that you would make to Senator…

I think it is a tremendous threat not just environmentally but also to human health and the commercial health of our fisheries up there.

But I think it is also important that we understand the scale of this problem as well.

the false advantage of not having an effective water management system in your country so that you dump millions of tons of plastic into the world's oceans, and that makes your products cheaper compared to a competing American product

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We got away with being the Ocean State by being among the first 13, when there was less competition.

if we are not going to urge them to do that through our trade policies, then shame on us.

let me add to what the distinguished Senator from Pennsylvania has said by noting first that the impasse to which he refers is created by his own leadership, which refused to bring up judges that have come out of the Judiciary Committee…

with that clarification, I must regrettably object to the unanimous consent request propounded by the junior Senator from Pennsylvania. But I do hope very much that we can find a way to work toward getting these judges confirmed. These are…

parliamentary question. I am not sure whether the majority leader's objection was to Senator Toomey's unanimous consent request or to my attempt to modify it. If it was to the former, we are moot, and this conversation has concluded. If…

reserving the right to object. On the Executive Calendar, there is a queue of judges who have come out of the Judiciary Committee and are ready for floor action. By my count, along that queue, the two Pennsylvania judges my distinguished…

today I rise for the 136th time in my series of speeches on the continuing threat of global climate change. Real science--the peer-reviewed kind--continues to prove the established connection between carbon pollution and the startling…

I ask unanimous consent that I be allowed to speak as in morning business for up to 20 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Climate Change

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