Political Quotes

“The amendment that I am offering here prohibits any of the funds in the Labor-HHS appropriations bill from being used to carry out President Biden's executive orders on climate change. Now, I have been offering this amendment to each of the appropriations bills. They have happily been accepted for virtually all of them, either by voice vote or on a roll call vote, and I think it is because particularly colleagues on my side of the aisle understand the absurdity of the President's orders and its impact on the American citizens, who are struggling to be able to make ends meet, be able to afford their cars, be able to afford their energy. In this instance, these executive orders were responsible for the creation of the Office of Climate Change and Health Equity within HHS. When we are sitting here with $2 trillion deficits each year and $34 trillion of debt, and we have created an Office of Climate Change and Health Equity within HHS, it just tells you the absurdity of this administration. In September of 2021, I sent a letter in opposition to the creation of this office highlighting how absurd it is, and among its responsibilities were ``regulatory efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and criteria air pollution throughout the health sector, including participating suppliers and providers.'' The vast majority of emissions in the healthcare sector stem from the hospital electricity consumption.…”