I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 15 minutes as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Climate Change

I am at this point in undecided mode. I am waiting to let my Rhode Island universities have a chance to digest the bill a little bit more.

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

I am here for the 98th time to urge this body to stop sleepwalking through history. Climate change is real, it is already harming the United States, and it is time for the Senate to wake up and address this threat. The science that links…

the conflict of big versus little and the advantage that our litigation system kind of systemically gives to big.

I echo Senator Coons' suggestion that there should be more hearings on this that bring in a wider range of viewpoints.

I think the phenomenon of climate change is one which is an overarching threat to the conservation of species.

We have Republican amendments which, eight to zero, go against the protections of the Endangered Species Act.

Thank you, Mr. President. I rise today to speak in opposition to the Republican so-called budget. I call it a ``so-called budget'' because I do not believe even Republicans would actually pass appropriations consistent with it. It looks to…

We have an absolutely Republican wall of antagonism to the new EPA rule protecting the waters of the United States.

Helps remind us why we do the Endangered Species Act.

I think I am the last one at this point. We are coming to the end of what has been a very interesting hearing.

It causes me to wonder, is there a single Federal environmental protection that our Republican friends like today.

It is not so much the question that there is a lot of data and there is a lot of information. That is not the problem.

The benefits of this rule are theoretical or unknown. They are not theoretical or unknown. They are very clear.

But we can't allow those consequences to take us to a point where we deny that the problem exists.

Well, we passed the statute that it is following, and I am comfortable that they are following it.

the evidence of climate disruption caused by carbon pollution is clear and overwhelming. Yet the Senate is sleepwalking through this history. I am here today for the 97th time to say that we must wake up. Climate disruptions are felt in…

I ask unanimous consent that Chris Stavish, an education fellow, and Karen Armitage, a health policy fellow, both in my office, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of this Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is…

My belief is that the Vitter amendment gets rid of the death zone.

I intend to vote for Senator Gillibrand's amendment because I think it moves us in the right direction.

I intend to support this amendment. I think it is a good amendment.

the significant responsibility for the immigration mess that we're in now lies with Congress, not with you.

I ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 15 minutes as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. CLIMATE CHANGE

as Americans celebrate the 35th Earth Day this week, I rise for the 96th time--I seem to be coinciding with the Presiding Officer's schedule so he has been treated to his share of these speeches--to urge this body to wake up to the threat…