"We need that different approach immediately and we, indeed, need to meet this moment with urgency."
"Last year's Texas winter storm stemmed from extreme weather and the lack of electric grid investments like winterization of energy infrastructure."
"Whether directly connecting to the grid as a resource, being paired with home solar panels to support system operation, or connecting to the grid as the engine in an electric vehicle, the quantity of ..."
"How can local governments work with utilities to advance environmental justice and how can the Federal government support that?"
"Thank you, Madam Chair, and thank you to our witnesses. I represent the safe and secure border city of El Paso, Texas."
"I join many of my colleagues who are local Texas elected officials in urging the state of Texas to expand interconnections to the Eastern and Western Grids."
"Our prison system has long failed to recognize the dignity of incarcerated people, the majority of whom are Black and Brown."
"It is truly my hope that their concern about compassion and due process will be extended to the migrant population in our custody as well."
"While some of my colleagues want to convince the American people that we can address our immigration challenges simply by hardening the border and utilizing cruelty as a policy, the truth is that the ..."
"Our immigration system is broken."
"I am the only representative on this Committee who actually lives in and represents a border community."