The legislative debate regarding Clean Water Act jurisdiction will be a controversial issue that the Obama administration will have to deal with.

What will you do to ensure the Corps maintains the ability to exercise its independent and primary decisionmaking authority as Congress intended?

Are you willing to work with Congress, as well as the navigation industry, to try to find an answer to this problem?

I don't want to go any further with this. I'm using up all my time and I didn't want to do that.

Thank you for your answer. It is not the one I wanted to hear, but thank you for the answer.

I believe the Second Amendment right--I believe the Supreme Court got it right.

it should be upon you to challenge that into court when it obviously is going to violate the Heller decision.

Will you commit to protect and preserve the rights of those 40 States that have a right-to-carry law by opposing legislation that would encroach upon those rights?

I hope you will look at that as you see this necessity of trying to rearrange the money that you have in terms of looking at risk instead of parochialism that makes us all look good.

The White House Council on Environmental Quality needs to reassert itself as a key advisor to the President on environmental matters.

With new leadership, I am confident we can wake up the EPA and the CEQ to their critical mission: to protect human health and the environment.

Missouri families are suffering right now. Missouri families face foreclosure from the housing crisis and recession job loss.

There are a lot of people who believe that should have been done for about $20 million.

You said scientific integrity and rule of the law, that is going to drive you.

We cannot support plans pushed by Northeast and West Coast States that will hit coal-dependent Missouri and Midwest manufacturing jobs especially hard.

That means, for example, protecting Missouri families and workers from climate change proposals that would raise energy costs by $6.7 trillion.

I tell you these things because I want both you and Ms. Sutley to succeed, and I want to work with you to protect the environment.

I don't agree with the criticisms of many on this Committee on the current Administration not being forthcoming and providing all the information needed.