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“GROWING CLIMATE SOLUTIONS ACT OF 2021” mentioning Christopher A. Coons was published in the Senate section on page S4749 on June 24.
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GROWING CLIMATE SOLUTIONS ACT OF 2021
Mr. COONS. Madam President, today has been great day for the American people, a great day for our democracy and for bipartisanship. Some of you may know that just hours ago, over at the White House, a determined group of Republicans and Democrats, led by Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Senator Rob Portman, Senator Joe Manchin, Senator Susan Collins, and a number of others, announced a deal on an infrastructure package with the White House that represents the largest investment in infrastructure in a generation.
This is a big accomplishment that I will talk about in a few moments, but I also want to bring attention to something that happened earlier today on the floor here that may just go overlooked because of the other important news of the day.
By a vote of 92 to 8, this Senate passed the Growing Climate Solutions Act, introduced by my friend and colleague from Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow, the chair of the Agriculture Committee, and my friend and colleague from Indiana Senator Mike Braun, who is my cochair of the Climate Solutions Caucus.
This bill, the Growing Climate Solutions Act, is a great example of how we can bring everyone to the table to find common ground on solutions that will protect our environment, help create jobs, and combat climate change.
It will help farmers and foresters in Delaware, in Michigan, in Texas, across our whole country, and we will benefit from changes in the way that they care for their land or forests, and it will help them to participate in carbon credit markets. It will provide a framework for rewarding America's farms and forests, and those who tend them, for climate-smart practices.
This is a commonsense, broadly bipartisan bill that will help us create a more sustainable future for our communities, our country, and our planet, with our farmers and our agriculture community taking the lead.
It reminds me of another signature moment that happened just at the very end of last year when, in December, the bipartisan Energy Act of 2020 was passed. Senators Murkowski and Manchin shepherded that into law late last year, and it modernizes our country's energy policies across a dozen different major areas.
Each of these bills--the Growing Climate Solutions Act and the Energy Act of 2020--were, in part, fostered by the bipartisan Senate Climate Solutions Caucus. Founded in 2019, this caucus has held more than 30 events and meetings, including many focused on natural climate solutions such as the Growing Climate Solutions Act.
Every Member, all 14 Members, of this bipartisan caucus cosponsored the Growing Climate Solutions Act, and I applaud Senators Stabenow and Braun for building a significant coalition here in the Senate to support it, a coalition that ranged from some of the most engaged and active environmental groups to the American Farm Bureau, one of the strongest voices for America's agricultural community.
Our work on climate is far from done. Members of the Climate Solutions Caucus have introduced a whole series of bipartisan bills that would promote natural climate solutions. Senator Portman and I have the Tropical Forest and Coral Reef Conservation Reauthorization Act; Senator Shaheen is leading the Forest Incentives Program Act; Senator Rubio, the Restoring Resilient Reefs Act; and many more.
We should advance these and many other bipartisan bills that every Member of our caucus supports and on which we are taking the lead. Let me be clear. I support bold action on climate. I support President Biden's climate agenda. And there are many more things we can and should do, but I think it is possible for us to both move ahead on those things that have enduring bipartisan support in this Chamber and across the country and to move ahead on those things that perhaps do not yet enjoy bipartisan support but where the need to act is urgent.
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