Once this comes home to roost in people’s homes, in their family finances, in really harmful ways, that [will be] motivating in a way that we haven’t seen before around this issue.

The good news is that the American people hate dark money with a passion, and they hate it just as much, if not more, in districts that went for Trump as in districts that went for Biden.

The fossil fuel industry has run the biggest and most malevolent propaganda operation the country has ever seen.

To deliberately ignore [the laws of physics] for short-term profits that set up people for huge, really bad impacts—if that’s not a good definition of evil, I don’t know what is.

How do you have an issue that you win 74 [percent] to 12 [percent] and you don’t ride that horse as hard as you can?

If you wait to fight until the polls tell you an issue is important, the battle can be over before you show up.

The good news is that the American people hate dark money with a passion, and they hate it just as much, if not more, in districts that went for Trump as in districts that went for Biden.

That sense of political listlessness quietly sinks in and informs the political refrain: Republicans are shameless, Democrats are spineless.

If you're always meeting voters where they are or were, they'll begin to notice that you never have anything new to say, that they never learn anything from you, that you're not a leader but a follower.

The fossil fuel industry has run the biggest and most malevolent propaganda operation the country has ever seen.

How do you have an issue that you win 74 to 12 [percent] and you don’t ride that horse as hard as you can?

Turns out, none of [the science] really matters while the operation is controlling things in Congress.

Once this comes home to roost in people’s homes, in their family finances, in really harmful ways, that [will be] motivating in a way that we haven’t seen before around this issue.

To deliberately ignore [the laws of physics] for short-term profits that set up people for huge, really bad impacts—if that’s not a good definition of evil, I don’t know what is.

I rise today for the 300th time with my trusty, increasingly battered 'Time to Wake Up' chart to try to rouse this Chamber to the looming dangers caused by fossil fuel pollution. I will say that Speaker Pelosi, whom I admire immensely…

as ranking member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, I wish to correct the record on one small piece of the big, terrible bill that the Senate barely passed last week and which the President signed into law on July 4. There are…

cooked up in back rooms, cloaked in fake numbers (that) loots our country (for) the least deserving people you could imagine feels (like) a crime scene.

Watch. Everybody who is here, watch as this goes forward, because we will give the Republicans a chance to reduce the increase to the debt and the deficit by peeling back just the tax cuts for the greedy billionaires. We would be voting…

The bill, actually, is required to raise the debt limit by $5 trillion. So, in reality, there is a huge hit to our debt, huge additions to our deficit. And it makes me a little bit frustrated to think back to all those lectures that I had…

Thank you, Senator Merkley. I mentioned earlier the history of the section that the Republican Budget chairman is using to perform this multitrillion-dollar magical act of making huge, deficit-busting numbers disappear. It is called…

When I was budget chairman and we were trying to focus, for instance, on the impending economic nightmare coming our way through climate-caused property insurance failures, what I would get is nonstop regular lectures from Republicans on…

in this place where big money now rules and in which fakery is now the order of the day and numbers no longer have to be real, there is one point that stands out, and that is that the fakery on the floor is belied by the language of the…

I rise today--and I will confess, I rise today a bit angry about this bill--this bill cooked up in back rooms, dropped at midnight, cloaked in fake numbers, with huge handouts to big Republican donors. It loots our country for some of the…

We have an individual who is here seeking confirmation to one of the highest judicial offices in the land.

What's next, brown shirts?