there is simply no real business pressure for carbon pricing at this point.

With a price on carbon, that would be consistent with global progress, you say, but it would also facilitate global progress through border adjustments.

the fossil fuel industry has known for decades about this problem. They have had every chance to deal responsibly with the pollution.

you cannot talk about natural gas emissions without talking about methane.

The first is that we`ve got a good start on a big bill right now with a massive investment in electronic vehicles, electronic vehicle infrastructure, to turn the transportation sector around.

Yes, I think the rule has to be every bill has to be a climate bill, and there has to be a big climate bill.

Well, let`s start with the ag bill which we went to the press conference day before yesterday, I want to say. It has 20, Republican co-sponsors. And it will instruct the Department of Agriculture to build a verifiable carbon offset so that…

50 percent plus by 2030 is a real serious commitment.

There is a really solid commit from Joe Manchin right across the board to solving this.

before my distinguished friend's speech, I ask unanimous consent to have an article appended as an exhibit to the remarks I gave earlier. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from North Dakota.

I am here to express my support for the nomination of Vanita Gupta to serve as Associate Attorney General. It is a little strange here on the floor today because under normal circumstances I would talk about Ms. Gupta's exemplary record of…

We are seeing ACO participation shrinking rather than growing.

The economic risks that we are talking about are many. They are profound. They are deeply dangerous.

I come into this boiling with frustration because of 8 years of work--and it always falls off the ledge because of a change in the executive branch. And I am going to get this done.

I think that what happened in here was delivery system reform.

What happened was Citizens United in January of 2010.

We have trillions of dollars in debt. Now, 2024 is the first insolvency date for Medicare.

A lot of people, including our people in our national security establishment, have said that the biggest issues to America actually are the debt and deficits, and they go on to say that it appears that the biggest part in our debt and…

I have been working on this now for 8 years, and every time we get close, there is an administration change or a personnel change or something, and it is imperative to get a CMMI waiver to make this happen.

What the fossil fuel industry has done in our politics makes me think of Winston Churchill's phrase many years ago of committing a crime that has no name.

I think that as we address this issue, and we address it from an equity point of view, it is going to be important, looking at whatever kind of a highway funding program we put in to make sure that this is not being used as a mechanism to…

I think this referral policy is a mutually agreeable situation between DOJ and IRS where powerful special interests get to get away with things.

this may be something that, given the bipartisan support and interest in this committee in getting this shell corporation problem solved, should perhaps be done as a committee-wide briefing

the last topic is that Congress, on a bipartisan basis--much thanks to the leadership of Senator Crapo...

You have called these provisions an 'America-last' tax policy.