Thank you, Senator Boxer.

Thank you, Senator Gillibrand.

Before moving forward with her nomination, it is important to know the White House's intentions on the open seat.

I urge you to take a page out of Chairman Jackson's playbook and tackle these challenges.

I personally appreciate your service.

Let me be clear. Our situation today is not analogous to what it was in 1998.

these oversight hearings are of extreme importance.

I would just ask you to do what you can to eliminate that.

I have another minute and a half. Anyone want to comment on that, of the other three commissioners?

Every member of the Oklahoma delegation, as you might know, wrote to the FCC on March 25 and said, look, don't do this, because we are the vanguard when it comes to policing waste, fraud, and abuse in the system.

Do you think it is appropriate to send individuals from the EPA that are being paid by taxpayer dollars from the United States to help countries meet a non-binding agreement?

I mean, you are here today to talk about your budget, and I am concerned that the EPA is using taxpayer dollars to send employees to other countries to help them with a non-binding agreement that was set in Paris.

We talked before about retrospective review. It is one of the areas that the Department of Labor has focused in on.

The standard of the economy in Oklahoma and the standard of living there is very different than San Francisco and New York.

And put the pressure back on everyone to actually get the task done.

Congress is not doing its job because it has found a way to be able to hand off to the courts.

Congress has the responsibility to be able to define this, if Congress failed on its responsibility, shouldn't Article 3 push back and say Article 1 needs to do their job?

As Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist No. 78, the interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar providence of the courts.