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“Six years ago, the world came together in Paris to forge an historic commitment to combating the climate crisis.  In doing so, the international community took an important step for climate action that honored our sacred duty to preserve the planet.  And just last month, the world convened in Glasgow for COP26 to measure our progress toward the targets we set in Paris – and to strengthen our commitments for the years ahead."

Thank you so much, very much for your very kind words, Executive Director Gonzalez. 

We’ve been working together for a very long time.  Thank you, Carolyn Maloney, for your great leadership: bringing us together, not only here, but following the work of Elijah Cummings, for whom this room and this bill – part of some of these bills have been named.  

“While Republicans play increasingly desperate and bad-faith political games with a phony score of an imaginary bill, House Democrats have proved our commitment to fiscal responsibility by passing a fully paid for Build Back Better Act."

Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued this statement marking the 73rd anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 10, 1948:

“The Build Back Better Act is the most significant cost-cutting and inflation-fighting measure in recent history – taking concrete action to lower everyday costs, slash middle-class taxes and put more money in working families’ pockets."