I have introduced legislation to authorize Congress to accept the statue

I really want to emphasize to you that process represents what should occur for States to join together and enter into an agreement to address water quality issues, and then involve the EPA to serve the role it is supposed to serve is…

I can assure you we'll work very hard to restore that.

Could you tell this subcommittee--could you get back to this subcommittee and tell us what you found inaccurate about that website?

But you agree it's really important that EPA provide accurate information to the Congress.

The EPA cut to the Chesapeake Bay is the one thing that has united everybody in the State of Maryland across party lines.

the Department of the Interior funding to the health of the Bay.

90 percent of the jobs there were as a result of tourism.

Thank you, Madame Chair and Ranking Member.

the Obama administration concluded it would be too great a risk to the livelihood of this area to open up that area for drilling.

not a single public hearing is scheduled as part of the effort to engage in seismic testing.

the budget includes about a $17 million cut for Chesapeake Bay activities.

This budget cuts that in half. And my question is how do you expect your scientists, and you have a really good team there, to do their job and help protect the Bay with half the money?

I would appreciate that.

Could you give us that information and that analysis?

it is pure--it is pure Enron accounting to pretend that this budget balances at 10 years.

How is it in a democratically elected institution where we decided to invest Federal taxpayer dollars in infrastructure projects, just tell me how that is communism.

are you willing to eliminate any of those tax breaks for the purpose of reducing the deficit and debt?