Madam Speaker. Every session somebody comes in here and tells you that the Climate Commitment Act is killing the Washington economy. The Washington economy added 78,000 jobs last year. The CCA is doing fine.
What is not doing fine is the air in my district in August. Or the salmon runs my colleague from the 24th has spent her entire career trying to protect. Or the relationship between the next generation and the planet we are handing them.
I have heard the argument that this bill is a regressive tax on working families. I have read the same studies the other side has read. The data does not support that argument. Roughly 60% of CCA revenue has gone back to working families through energy bill credits, weatherization assistance, and electric vehicle rebates for households under the median income. The remaining 40% has built things, including the transit line that opens in my district in three months.
I urge a yes vote. I yield the floor.
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