Before the world as an exceptional country and deservedly so. America proved the case for popular sovereignty with no need of kings or crowns. America took our balanced market capitalism and rode to International Economic dominance. America has long been the vanguard of civil and human rights for our people and around the globe. And when American Military power must be used, we dont conquer and rule. We come home. This exceptional nature confers upon us a responsibility to lead, to be an example, to be as president reagan said a shining city on a hill. Our generation will be judged by whether we were responsible about Climate Change, whether we listened and whether we led. Senator manchin and i are both committed to the idea that American Innovation can create the Clean Energy Technologies of the future, that when it comes to addressing the biggest problems facing our world, the United States should be out front, and we are committed to working together to find responsible solutions to