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I want to also emphasize the fact that you have three districts of the EPA that are involved in this area.

I hope he has the guts to stand here and ask the President of the Navajo Nation if what we are doing here today is a farce.

It was quick to dispatch staff to the Navajo communities to hand out Standard Form 95 and encourage members of the Navajo Nation to fill out forms to expedite settlement of their claims under the Federal Tort Claims Act, and apparently to…

The media was receiving faster and fuller information from the EPA than the Navajo Nation.

To put in your statement that you are working closely with the Navajo Nation is totally misleading.

You took 2 days before you called them.

I expect we will hear the words '1872 Mining Law' repeatedly from both the Administration and the minority, as they attempt to ignore EPA's culpability, shift blame, and pursue action on an agenda that would decimate the mining industry.

The EPA must be held fully accountable for the accident.

If an individual or a private company had done this, EPA would have already made sure there was hell to pay.

To begin with, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency inexplicably delayed notification of the spill to the Navajo Nation.

I have to tell you I am highly offended by those comments.

Let me be clear. Secretary Jewell's refusal to testify today is especially egregious and disappointing, given the magnitude of this disaster and the breadth of its effect on her agency.

Both the EPA and the Department of the Interior will be held accountable, today and in the future, as the recovery efforts continue.

Refusing to sit alongside representatives of the states and tribes that have traveled across this country to discuss this disaster is simply unheard of, and is wrong.

Over a year ago, EPA began remediation on the Gold King Mine in Colorado that ultimately led to 3 million gallons of orange crap that went down the Animas and San Juan Rivers from Colorado into New Mexico, Utah, and perhaps even into…

Just from what I've read, I have not seen the memo myself.

EPA documents show the Agency was aware as early as June of 2014 that a massive blowout was possible.

I want to know about overseas flights and how many of those are covered.