Steve Cohen

It is our duty to act, and I believe the NEWBORN Act would be crucial, and a crucial step forward.

We should be ashamed.

And after 9 months after Congress said to do it and lives are in the balance and you are in the conversation stage?

Despite this, seat sizes continue to shrink, and the seat sizes shrink not on their own, but because the airlines want to pack more people in, they want to emulate sardines in an airplane.

Emergency evacuation is a serious issue, as is the potential for air rage as tensions mount inside more tightly packed cabins.

Airplane safety is so important. And in those crashes, it was death. It is a serious matter and the public deserves the right to know when decisions to increase profit margins have an impact on their health and safety.

That is why Representative Kinzinger and I introduced the Safe Egress in Air Travel, or the SEAT Act...

For the first time ever, the Arctic Council ministers did not sign a ministerial declaration because Secretary Pompeo would not allow language about climate change to be included in that declaration.

Secretary Zinke the very next week testified to Congress that he intended to use reassignments as a way to trim the DOI workforce by 4,000 people.

What are the dangers to Native Alaskans due to climate change?

Thank you, Madam Chair. Before I begin my questions, I want to submit a document for the record from the Society of Professional Journalists.

Do you suspect that was caused by man, climate change caused by man or was that just an act of God?

I'm proud to be a cosponsor of the Scientific Integrity Act.

We cannot adequately understand these threats - let alone address them - with anything less than the best possible science.

If this episode at IRIS isn't political interference in science, I don't know what is.

Federal agencies need to listen to scientists and allow them to do their work unhindered by political considerations.

Can I ask you to try to call them and urge them to start to act on behalf of the flying public?

Don't you think you ought to take some action by now?

Hello. How are you? I am here at the University of Michigan as a freshman. Nice to meet you.

I have a bill called the Fresh Start Act, which I have had for some time, and with the Democratic leadership here, we might have a chance to move it.

Tennessee is one of the worst States, I think.

One policy we have in State and Federal both is we have private prisons.

I just want to add my support to this. We have added these prohibitions on three other bills that have come through here, State, and Foreign Operations; Commerce, Justice, and Science; and Financial Services and General Government. It is…

The chair has introduced a bill, H.R. 197, that's called the Special Counsel Independence and Integrity Act, which would codify those protections.

Mr. Mueller made clear that he did not suggest the President should be indicted or was indicted because of the OLC's opinion that he couldn't be indicted.