My preferred policy is a border adjusted carbon tax that creates incentives to account for the costs for energy use.
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.
My preferred policy is a border adjusted carbon tax that creates incentives to account for the costs for energy use.
I think the way out of most of those problems is comprehensive payment reform.
We thank you for your leadership in introducing S. 923, the Better Mental Health Care for Americans Act.
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?
Fossil fuel subsidies move us away from energy prices that accurately represent the extensive external costs associated with their use.
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.
Fossil fuel subsidies move us away from energy prices that accurately represent the extensive external costs associated with their use.
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.
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?
We thank you for your leadership in introducing S. 923, the Better Mental Health Care for Americans Act.
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.
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?
My preferred policy is a border adjusted carbon tax that creates incentives to account for the costs for energy use.
I think the way out of most of those problems is comprehensive payment reform.
I wanted to flag, not exactly the topic of this hearing, but it has been extremely important in Rhode Island to have had mental health access through COVID through telehealth.





