Steve Cohen

The hate in this country, the terrorism, mostly from the radical White supremacists is horrific.

As stated in written testimony submitted for the February 15, 2022, hearing of the House Committee on Natural Resources regarding H.R. 2021, the Environmental Justice for All Act, in the absence of comprehensive environmental justice laws…

Thank you, Ms. Cahn.

So, we need to have this environmental justice for the future and to make up somewhat for the past, so I appreciate this hearing.

Every place, they don't want it in their back yard, and the powerful people, the wealthy people, the people that have voices... they don't get the pollutants in those areas.

They tried to put a pipeline through a minority community, and they had the nerve to say it was the path of least resistance.

I wish that we had better results from the Department of the Interior on taking care of our four-legged friends and their opportunities to graze and not be treated inhumanely.

We are out-using Mother Earth, and we are taking too many resources out of it and putting too many pressures on it.

Climate change has a disproportionate effect on poor people, and that is why we need to be concerned about it.

Inflation is a worldwide problem, and that inflation is in Brazil, and it is in Germany, and it is everywhere, in Europe, and all around the world.

The Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel published a memorandum concluding that the Bureau of Prisons was not required to return those released to home confinement under the CARES Act to prison once the emergency period ended.

I led a letter along with Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman and the Biden Administration urging them to avoid the reincarceration of those released to home confinement under the CARES Act.

It seemed like it should have been pursued with vigor, and it wasn't

That was one of the few successes Mr. Trump had, that and the Operation Warp Speed

The pandemic has highlighted many of the failing of our Federal prison system

Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you for holding this hearing.

The American Music Fairness Act will restore balance to the music industry, ensure artists are properly compensated for their labor. I'm proud to co-sponsor it.

Our local broadcasters are an essential component of emergency preparedness.

I know the very tight margins that they work under.

I'm a conservative, I believe in the inherent value of the fundamental property right, which is a foundational premise of our country.

It is an important bill and I wish that his Administration as head of the Bureau of Prisons would have tried to implement it.

I am disappointed the Bureau of Prisons isn't with us.

I want to thank everybody on--all the Witnesses for testifying and I want to--it has been wonderful listening to my Republican colleagues, a byproduct of January 6 is we have got some new allies in trying to get prison reforms.

Hopefully the Biden Administration will appoint a progressive-minded head of the Bureau of Prisons...

I have been an advocate for compassionate release for a decade, at least...