What House Republicans passed does nothing to protect the benefits and support that veterans have earned.
Sheldon Whitehouse
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Sheldon Whitehouse is a United States Senator from Rhode Island, serving since January 4, 2007. A member of the Democratic Party, Whitehouse has focused on a range of issues including environmental protection, healthcare reform, and campaign finance reform. He has been a vocal advocate for addressing climate change and has worked to promote policies aimed at reducing carbon emissions and protecting natural resources. Whitehouse has also been involved in efforts to reform the political campaign finance system, emphasizing the need for transparency and accountability in political donations.
do not let Speaker McCarthy's partisan, hostage taking win the day, and lose the 21st Century.
I've never heard a colleague say you know what? Methane leakage is a really good thing. We're for that.
Come to the table. Work with us to simply pay our country's bills like we have so many times before.
the Congressional Budget Office estimates that fossil fuel subsidies led to a minimal impact of about a half a percent more domestic oil production.
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?
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.
Fossil fuel subsidies move us away from energy prices that accurately represent the extensive external costs associated with their use.
If we end up going into this Republican threatened default, and all the pain and calamity that all of the witnesses have forecast comes to pass, people in America are going to want to know who is responsible.
It comes as no surprise that a bill from House Republicans, of whose 315 pages, 275 are dedicated to handouts to the fossil fuel industry, would if implemented, also crash their competition, the solar industry.
if this default is provoked by what looks like a desperate last attack on clean energy competition by a massive polluting, and heavily political industry, that will come back to them.
We thank you for your leadership in introducing S. 923, the Better Mental Health Care for Americans Act.
my hard earned experience tells me that when the Republican Party acts on pollution related and corruption related issues, the Party acts as the glove for fossil fuels dark hand.
I think the way out of most of those problems is comprehensive payment reform.
Fossil fuel subsidies move us away from energy prices that accurately represent the extensive external costs associated with their use.
The Default on America Act doesn't even protect veterans healthcare, one of our fundamental obligations to the men and women who put their lives on the line for our country.
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?
What House Republicans have voted for is one massive gift to the Chinese government because guess what? Our competitors are not debating whether to pay their debts or wreck their economy.





