"We need to have robust funding in the base program."
"I hope that you will do this in a year."
"Under the previous Administration, as this Committee witnessed, EPA's integrity was compromised."
"Science took a back seat to politics."
"The winds of change have blown and under the Obama administration science is resuming its rightful place in public policy."
"The people can handle the truth in a democracy."
"Polluters' interests came before protecting public health."
"I am confident that the reassertion of science will bring about the policy reforms necessary for the Environmental Protection Agency to get back to the work of protecting the environment."
"I think you and I share the belief that the better we remember this, the less likely it is to be repeated."
"You must feel considerable satisfaction in seeing such swift results under this Administration of the recommendations that GAO offered in the past."
"More generally, we had a wonderful speech delivered by our President in Normandy. He talked about why the soldiers return to Normandy and tell their stories."
"I think the experience of the last 8 years is a significant one. It was particularly bad, particularly unique."
"I think one of the most important things is going to be to draft an agency-wide media policy."
"I think we have a number of these issues swirling around."
"The task force has, in the Federal Register, filed a notice requesting public comments on the President's memorandum and its six guiding principles."
"How do we write a policy or pursue a standard of oversight that allows for some degree of management of the function of employees in talking to the media?"
"I think as you said, there is the risk that if industry itself won't stand up to these abusive practices and distinguish its science from them, that they will then suffer some of that taint, which I t..."
"Thank you very much, Senator Carper."
