Findings tallies count 12 of 1,363 official–disaster reviews as Climate Connection (one review per Core Democratic Official per disaster). Below that tally, 13 distinct in-window published statements carry the matching code — the quotable evidence layer. Extra statements are additional in-window quotes from officials who already have a yes — one review can have more than one published statement.
Official–disaster reviews (12)
Scoring rows from the research grid — what increments the Findings tally.
| Official | Disaster | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Chris Coons | Canadian Wildfire Smoke (June 2023) | Published statement → |
| Chuck Schumer | Canadian Wildfire Smoke (June 2023) | Published statement → |
| Ed Markey | Canadian Wildfire Smoke (June 2023) | Published statement → |
| Hakeem Jeffries | Canadian Wildfire Smoke (June 2023) | Published statement → |
| Jack Reed | Canadian Wildfire Smoke (June 2023) | Published statement → |
| Martin Heinrich | Canadian Wildfire Smoke (June 2023) | Published statement → |
| Bernie Sanders | Vermont & Northeast Flash Floods (July 2023) | Published statement → |
| Peter Welch | Vermont & Northeast Flash Floods (July 2023) | Published statement → |
| Mazie Hirono | Lahaina Wildfire (August 2023) | Published statement → |
| Peter Welch | Hurricane Beryl (July 2024) — Texas Gulf Coast | Published statement → |
| Amy Klobuchar | Texas Hill Country Flash Floods (July 2025) | Published statement → |
| Ed Markey | Canadian Fire Smoke (July 2026) | Published statement → |
In-window statements (13)
Core cohort only · published · in-window · coded yes.
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Ed Markey
July 18, 2026: Sen. Ed Markey wrote EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum about “the ongoing U.S.-Canada cross-border emergency that has prompted air quality alerts, public health harm, and economic losses across the Midwest and Eastern Seaboard of the …
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Amy Klobuchar
July 9, 2025, Commerce Committee: “We all are heartbroken over the loss of life, the kids at the camps, the people in both Senator Cruz’s and Senator Luján’s state. And I think that we all know this is not an isolated incident. We can pretend it is, but it is not. Extreme weathe…
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Peter Welch
July 11, 2024, in reaction to overnight floods: “It is beyond heartbreaking to see more devastating floods in the same communities exactly one year later—yet, this is our new reality. So many homeowners, farms, businesses, and communities are still working to recover from last J…
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Mazie Hirono
August 13, 2023, CNN State of the Union. Asked whether disasters like this are becoming more common because of climate change, and whether President Biden should declare a climate emergency: “I think that we very much need to acknowledge that climate change is upon us. There are…
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Bernie Sanders
July 15, 2023, Weston / Londonderry / Ludlow. Asked about climate change: “We are facing an existential threat to the planet. The United States, China and other countries need to come together in the very near future to radically transform our energy system away from fossil fuel…
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Peter Welch
July 15, 2023, same southern Vermont tour. “The whole debate about climate change in the denialism those days is behind us. The real challenge is a lot of folks who are in the status quo are fighting to hang on and obviously we can’t afford it … what might have been a 3-inch sto…
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Chuck Schumer
June 12, 2023 Senate floor: “Republicans’ latest proposal will also gut billions in clean energy investments essential for lowering our carbon emissions… the Inflation Reduction Act has helped create over 142,000 new good-paying jobs… but Republicans want to gut those investment…
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Jack Reed
June 9, 2023: smoke from Canadian wildfires over Rhode Island and the East Coast. “We’ve got to keep people safe from this degraded air quality and we’ve got to take action to prevent climate change from making this a common occurrence.” “Climate change is causing drier, hotter …
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Chris Coons
June 8, 2023 CNN Amanpour: “The vast wildfires out of control in Canada are impacting the entire East Coast of the United States.” “This is a real public health challenge and a reminder that climate change has dramatic consequences.”
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Chuck Schumer
June 8, 2023 Senate floor: “This week, the United States has suffered through some of the worst wildfire air pollution in the history of our country.” Quebec fires sending smoke into U.S. cities. “To walk through New York City yesterday was to walk on another planet — the orange…
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Ed Markey
June 8, 2023 Senate floor: “Mr. President, go outside. It is hard to breathe.” East Coast smoke. Climate change made the pattern “more frequent and more intense.” “This isn’t just a forest fire. This is a climate fire because our entire climate is on fire.”
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Hakeem Jeffries
June 7, 2023: “Our City is currently experiencing poor and unhealthy air quality levels due to smoke from wildfires in Canada.” Safety guidance, then: “The increase in extreme weather events–from flooding to wildfires–is a stark reminder of the drastic effects of climate change.…
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Martin Heinrich
June 7, 2023, Capitol Hill, as East Coast encounters wildfire smoke from Canada: “Those of us in the West are used to this… This is the result of 100 years of burning fossil fuels and it means we’re now burning our forests because the planet is a warmer place.” Reprinted on hein…