“‘We passed the biggest climate change act in the history of America after people ignored it for 40 years, and the president led the way on that, and nobody really knows that. And former President Trump is saying to the oil companies ‘help me raise a billion dollars and I’m gonna roll back all this stuff,’ Suozzi told POLITICO. ‘I mean, if young people knew that, I think we could get some of that enthusiasm gap back.’”
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Video - Pakistan’s Flooding is an Overwhelming Climate Change and Humanitarian Crisis:
News reports can’t possibly portray the incredible devastation that I saw first hand today in the Pakistan. ting people and unsafe water is causing dysentery. (1/5)
1 million homes have been destroyed, 30 million people have been displaced, crops cannot be salvaged, 750,000 livestock are dead, over 1,000 are already reported as drowned.
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Standing water will not recede for months, mosquitos spreading malaria are infecting people and unsafe water is causing dysentery.
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The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, legislation that I helped lead as Chair of the Uyghur Caucus and as a member of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, was signed into law by the President on December 23, 2021. (1/4)
Intended to ban imports from the Xinjiang region unless companies can prove they are made without forced labor, it has become apparent that some solar products made by Chinese companies, whose techniques indicate the use of forced labor, are still being imported into the US.(2/4)
Today, I joined six House Democrats in a letter to U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus calling for aggressive enforcement of the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act. (3/4)
Kai Li has been wrongfully held in prison by the Chinese Communist Party for four years under awful conditions and in deteriorating health. A UN report that confirms he is being held arbitrarily and unfairly. (1/5)
Kai Li, my constituient, emigrated from Shanghai in 1989, became a US citizen and a successful businessman, and has raised a family here on Long Island. In 2016, he returned to China to pay his respects on the one-year anniversary of his mother’s death. (2/5)
As he stepped off the plane, Kai was grabbed, accused of spying, & unfairly sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Kai Li is the only US citizen currently held in China on state security charges. In late 2020 the UN’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) determined that..(3/5)