Speeches

Mr. President, I rise for the 307th time with my trusty Time to Wake Up chart to warn this chamber about how America’s worst polluters have occupied the Trump administration from within.  The mischief continues. The polluters are up to... Continue Reading

Mr. President, people following the Senate floor will know that hundreds of times I have come to the floor with my trusty, increasingly beat up “Time to Wake Up” poster to describe the various manners in which the fossil fuel... Continue Reading

Mr. President, I rise for the 305th time with my increasingly weathered, yet ever more relevant “Time to Wake Up” chart to warn this chamber about a corrupt danger to our country.  A danger powered by fossil fuel industry money,... Continue Reading

It was the spring of 2019.  Public and media interest in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report into Russia’s election interference operation reached a fever pitch.  There had been a steady drip, drip, drip of reporting on the Trump team’s cozy... Continue Reading

Here in this Temple of Mammon, we only seem to care about what we can monetize. So as Budget chair, I drilled hard into how climate change is coming at American family finances.  Some of it comes at families through... Continue Reading

Mr. President, I am here on the floor for the 36th speech in my ‘‘Scheme’’ series, calling attention to the rightwing scheme to capture our courts and justice system. It has morphed from stacking the Court with billionaire-selected Justices to... Continue Reading

Mr. President, I am here for my, oh, I guess umpteenth “Time to Wake Up” speech. This one comes upon my return from Brazil, where I was the entirety of the United States of America governmental presence at the COP.... Continue Reading

Mr. President, I rise here for the 302nd time to urge this somnolent, compromised body to wake up to the dangers of climate change— again, with my trusted and increasingly battered chart. This time, my focus is on the fossil... Continue Reading

Sailors and pilots know to look out for dangerous weather ahead; politicians can get lost in the moment.  We are on the verge of a major economic shock, but we in Congress are lost in the moment, not paying attention. ... Continue Reading

I rise today for the 300th time with my trusty, increasingly battered Time to Wake Up chart, to try to rouse this chamber to the looming dangers caused by fossil fuel pollution. I’m not sure whether this is a triumph... Continue Reading