The question before this Congress will be whether we do our duty and raise the debt ceiling. The question of the debt ceiling is not about authorizing new spending. It is about paying our bills, and it is no different than if a family…

We think that's a great tool to actually look at your cybersecurity posture as a utility.

What would you do and the Commission do to ensure that our market operators, such as IFO New England, are able to meet their compliance dates for the order?

I have worked with others for the deployment of smart meters, energy efficiency technology, and so on.

Representative Clark and I are going to be introducing the Federal Energy Efficiency Standard.

I think some of the attacks on government workers are really improper and sound very antiquated and obsolete to me.

I want to bring up Congresswoman Bustos' Social Determinants Accelerator Act, and I am a cosponsor, and it is really important in Vermont.

We need to help our small businesses where it is enormous financial pressure to deal with their commitment to their own employees, who they regard as family.

Make no mistake, kids get it. If we don't take this seriously across the board, they will find those loopholes and continue their addiction.

It is simple. Any product with a history of increasing youth use must be rejected by the Food and Drug Administration, especially flavored products that we know hooks the kids.

I am deeply troubled with what I have heard from the response of the FDA to my letters.

The most solemn decision a country can make is to send its sons and daughters to war. The most solemn responsibility Congress has is to make that decision. Yet, Congress has delegated that authority too often and too long to the executive…

We hit the 80 percent vaccine rate yesterday. And Governor Scott, our Republican Governor who has done an incredibly good job, incredible job, was able to announce the reopening.

It is a little hard for me to characterize with a broad brush, you know, all those people and what motivated each of them.

Get your facts first. Then you can distort them as you wish.

I am a big supporter of the work of my colleagues, Congresswoman Schrier, Butterfield, McKinley, and Joyce on their Strengthening Vaccines for Children Act.

And they were encouraged to do so by former President Trump, correct?

I think you may be mute.

If there’s not a pushback on this and a respect for the law and a limitation the power of the president to breach constitutional rights... it could be Republicans next time.

the president used the Justice Department, his handpicked attorney general, to basically go after personal information on members of Congress, a separate and equal branch of government.

A.G. Barr basically had the view that the president was the law.

We really can’t move on by ignoring what has been an extraordinary breach of constitutional rights by -- and an abuse of power by the president.

This would be first of its kind, absent action like the SACKLER Act.

I certainly share President Biden's desire to bring a responsible end to America's longest war.

the McKinley-Welch bill would provide rebates for--to help retrofit millions of homes across the country