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Jay Inslee

(1951) Politician United States

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Jay Inslee is a politician from the United States, best known for Apollo's fire: igniting America's clean-energy economy.

Quick Facts About Jay Inslee

Born: February 9, 1951
Nationality: United States
Profession: Politician
Notable works: Apollo's fire: igniting America's clean-energy economy
Spouse: Trudi Inslee

About Jay Inslee

Jay Robert Inslee is an American politician and attorney who served as the 23rd governor of Washington from 2013 to 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served in the United States House of Representatives from 1993 to 1995 and from 1999 to 2012. Inslee was also a candidate in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries.

Biography source: Wikipedia

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From floods in Iowa and Nebraska to fires in California to hurricanes in Houston and Puerto Rico, we can no longer escape…

Change

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We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil every year, but we only have reserves, including that which has not been…

About

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We are a compassionate nation, taking in the refugees and those, you know, fleeing, the huddled masses yearning to be free. This…

Compassion

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ISIS is a terrorist organization. It is a terrorist organization that the world must unite against.

Must

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I am a relatively new Member to this Chamber, and it is troublesome to me and I can tell Members it is…

Am

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What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species…

Bird

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We clearly need to break our addiction on Saudi Arabian oil that is a security threat to the United States.

Addiction

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Now is the time to scrub ideology out of the energy discussion, so we can make bi-partisan progress towards investing in a…

Better future

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Every state in this nation has been made better by those who have chosen to move here to escape persecution or extreme…

Better

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A lot of people do not think of forests as a health issue, but we have found out that is where our…

Clean

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If we had continued making progress at the rate we were during the Carter administration, we would be free of oil imports…

Administration

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Because of the Internet's open platform, entrepreneurs have started small businesses, innovators have created online services, and webcasters have produced a diversity…

Business

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President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason…

Compelling

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Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need…

Add

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So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the…

Dependent

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There is no excuse for this administration shielding information about Iraq and the fact that we have great difficulties there from the…

Administration

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Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got…

Adopted

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Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.

Difficult

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Air is one we hold in common; it has a limited carrying capacity for pollutants and that's being used up by those…

Air

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Not wasting energy. It is the least sexy, but the single most important and always the least expensive. You would be very…

Believe

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If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.

Currents

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As governor of Washington, I've seen firsthand what's possible when you invest in clean energy - reducing carbon pollution and supporting family-wage…

Clean energy

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Renewable energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy - most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing…

Energy

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We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept…

Country

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For years, my state of Washington tried to pass its own state Dream Act. Many Republicans weren't interested. But some thought differently…

America

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