John Cornyn: “over the last couple of years, our Democratic colleagues have suggested a range of unrealistic and downright harmful…”

“over the last couple of years, our Democratic colleagues have suggested a range of unrealistic and downright harmful policies in our shared goal--and I emphasize the words ``shared goal''--to reduce carbon emissions. But it is not just a question of what you are doing; it is a question of how you are going about doing it. The way they are going about doing it is going to raise the prices of electricity, gasoline, and all forms of energy on people on fixed incomes, people who are seniors living on Social Security, and others. They have proposed everything from the socialist agenda that is the Green New Deal to more targeted, but no more realistic, zero net emission mandates. Now, we all know that energy transition occurs at all times. I have traveled to India--perhaps the Presiding Officer has--and to other countries where people literally cook their food using cow manure patties, dried cow manure. I remember Prime Minister Modi coming to Houston, TX, during an event that we called ``Howdy, Modi!'' when he heralded the use of increased access to cooking gas so that his constituents, Indians, wouldn't have to use dried cow dung to cook their food--that represents progress--or wouldn't have to use wood chips anymore. Then the transition was to coal, then to natural gas, nuclear, and other forms of energy. So energy transition occurs at all times.…”