Donald Beyer
The Public Record
This lack of sovereignty--the sovereignty thing is the emptiest issue I have ever seen.
This is the greatest misunderstanding of what this legislation does that I have ever seen.
I think we all recognize that the Endangered Species Act is a balancing act with many different concerns that citizens have.
I think I would restate that the Endangered Species Act is indeed more important now than ever.
I think it was Mr. Wood who said in the original legislation it talked about bringing any listed species to the point of which ESA regulations are no longer necessary.
The unfairness of having the rich pay by one set of rules and working families pay by another is pernicious and dangerous.
President Biden's commitment to a worker-centered trade policy was trying to reconcile our commitment to global trade.
There is a $9.7 billion investment in rural electric cooperatives, allowing for rural communities to switch to clean energy not only for the benefits for clean air and climate, but also for the benefits for jobs and economic development in those communities.
The IRA takes a step in the right direction by dedicating funds--4 billion under a manufacturing program, a bonus tax credit for the wind and solar developments, a loan program worth $250 billion in loans--to specifically invest in energy transition communities to retool for the clean energy economy.
The IRA recognizes one essential truth, which is that while there has been a lot of hand-waving in the past, assuming that technological shifts will just naturally take care of workers and communities, we know that is absolutely not the case.





