The U.S. Constitution vests the actual budget and spending authority with the Congress.
I am especially happy with the reinvigorated Superfund program.
I also want to applaud your initiative to look at the EPA's workforce.
The American people don't want ideologues rewriting or reinterpreting law.
Fortunately, committee Democrats have been demanding answers and five independent Federal investigations are now being d...
I also want to commend you for reducing the backlog of applications for new chemicals.
I am glad to hear that the regulatory process you are running is not looking to short circuit public comment.
You are accountable for your Agency and all of these scandals. The buck stops at your desk.
Lying to Congress is a crime, regardless of whether or not you are sworn in.
I'm not disputing the President's pardon authority.
I look forward to supporting your budget requests because I think that the work the CBO does is very important.
Well, I look forward to working with the Chairman here as well as others on the Appropriations Committee to ask GAO to l...
As you know, if the executive branch, regardless of party, refuses to release funds, it begins a clock ticking.
But I believe back in the day, the GAO actually brought a case during the Nixon administration when they claimed the aut...
The power to pardon is a legitimate power. It is one that ought to be exercised with great care.
Can you think of any pardon during the 8 years of the Obama administration that didn't--that did not go through the Offi...
Do you stand by that statement that you made, back during that hearing, that the Pardon Attorney ought--the pardon power...
I support the National Public Safety Partnership, PSP, which is a program established by the administration to help figh...
