Your leadership on climate change has inspired other States to step up to the plate and it is time for the Congress to do the same.
I would respect the law of the State of Washington.
I just looked at Illinois, for example, because I wanted to honor Representative Shimkus. It has 8,633 wind jobs. It has 4,879 solar jobs.
Today, there are 3.2 million Americans working in the clean energy sector today, and it is the fastest growing sector of the economy.
We need the Congress to move.
You can't say you want the rest of the world to act and then turn around and say you are not part of the Paris Agreement.
It is a heartbreak to see some technologies that--in the lab were created in our labs be deployed in China and Germany because they have had...
we have been dedicated to developing a clean energy economy and in part, because of that, we have the best economy in the United States.
We are ready to--we are in the gate, ready to go, if the Federal Government will just remove those requirements.
We have a whole host of alternatives that provide us cleaner transportation systems.
We passed a renewable portfolio standard provision maybe a decade-plus ago. We had zero wind turbines or any significant wind turbines. We n...