Sheldon Whitehouse

I've never heard a colleague say you know what? Methane leakage is a really good thing. We're for that.

It would be fair to describe that as crashing the American solar industry.

I think that that is not coincidental.

For the record, the MAGA extremists in the House who were essential to McCarthy's speakership have said that nothing less than the Default on America Option will pass.

Thank you Senator Grassley.

MAGA Republican's dangerous bill poses a terrible choice. Default on our financial obligations, causing widespread pain and wrecking our economy, or gut basic federal programs essential to our economic strength causing widespread pain and…

On Monday, Leader Schumer, along with Senators Murray, Wyden and I introduced a two page bill to stave off default through the end of 2024.

275 out of 315 pages of the dirty Default on America Bill are devoted to giveaways to the fossil fuel industry.

They seek to cause chaos. Not coincidentally this serves the eccentric and secretive billionaires and polluting industries who are the Republican party's funders.

If we wanted to exert pressure on countries like China and India to move off of fossil fuels and to accelerate their transition to clean energy, what U.S. policy would most likely accomplish that?

My preferred policy is a border adjusted carbon tax that creates incentives to account for the costs for energy use.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that fossil fuel subsidies led to a minimal impact of about a half a percent more domestic oil production.

There is an enormous burden of unnecessary administrative cost from that.

I think the way out of most of those problems is comprehensive payment reform.

If we wanted to exert pressure on countries like China and India to move off of fossil fuels and to accelerate their transition to clean energy, what U.S. policy would most likely accomplish that?

My preferred policy is a border adjusted carbon tax that creates incentives to account for the costs for energy use.

Fossil fuel subsidies move us away from energy prices that accurately represent the extensive external costs associated with their use.

The Congressional Budget Office estimates that fossil fuel subsidies led to a minimal impact of about a half a percent more domestic oil production.

We recommend that the committee incentivize primary care to adopt and implement the Collaborative Care Model.

We recommend that the committee advance this legislation expeditiously.

We thank you for your leadership in introducing S. 923, the Better Mental Health Care for Americans Act.

It has been extremely important for people who are in recovery to be able to talk to their peer recovery coaches and to the people who are providing them treatment.

There is an enormous burden of unnecessary administrative cost from that.

I think the way out of most of those problems is comprehensive payment reform.

House Republicans have armed the default hand grenade, and pulled the pin, and have it in their hands, threatening to blow it up with all of the consequences that each of you have forecast, and the question is for whom?