John Cornyn: “If he will be quiet for a minute, I will tell him what I am for, if he will quit interrupting. So what this is is an…”

“If he will be quiet for a minute, I will tell him what I am for, if he will quit interrupting. So what this is is an attempt--is purely a power grab here in Washington masked as a feel-good environmental policy, mixing ideas like Medicare for All and guaranteed jobs with wildly unrealistic and radical environmental policies like zero net emissions transportation systems and guaranteed green housing. Since this resolution was proposed, it has gained the ire of people on both sides of the aisle, something we don't see that often, and something that I don't know that I have ever seen. One of this bill's authors refers to the majority leader's intent to bring this resolution to the floor as sabotage. Ordinarily, when you introduce an idea to the U.S. Congress, you are begging the majority leader to put it on the floor--the committee chairman to put it through committee so you can advance your idea. When the majority leader said he would do that for the Green New Deal, it was called sabotage. Since the Green New Deal was rolled out, things in Washington have gotten increasingly wacky and, believe it or not, even crazy. We recently put a pricetag on the Green New Deal. You heard the Senator from Iowa talk about the $93 trillion. That is so much money that I doubt most of us can wrap our brains around it. It is kind of like when somebody tells you the Earth is 140 million miles from Mars. How do you conceptualize that?…”