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I want to commend you, Mr. Administrator, for the critical role that you have played in our fight against climate change and reducing the public exposure to air pollution and toxins.

There is nothing that should be partisan about the pursuit of clean air, clean water, clean working conditions.

There is no doubt that there is industry that wants more of a freedom to pollute without having environmental rules imposed against them.

Under the Presidential Administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the EPA has taken decisive action to put the health of the people before the profits of polluters.

Millions of Americans are suffering the health effects of legacy pollution, dangerous air quality, and other kinds of toxic contamination.

It is another brutal summer in Washington, but, as we say on Capitol Hill, it is not the heat, it is the stupidity.

I want to make sure I am on the record so that members of the Committee on both sides of the aisle will at least respect the personal integrity of a witness before this Committee.

The single biggest driver of our national debt since 2001 has been Republican tax cuts.

Make America Great Again (MAGA) Republicans live in a fantasy world of a balanced budget, with extended Trump tax cuts, and funded Social Security, Medicare, defense and veteran's programs. Can't happen.

If we all agree that we're not cutting Social Security and Medicare, and we all agree that their trust funds become cash insolvent in approximately 10 years, there's only one solution left. Raise new revenues to fund Social Security and…

There's no reason that investors on Wall Street should pay less in taxes than a firefighter in Spokane, Washington.

The trickle down economics was going to work, right?

It makes no sense to add even more to our deficits to disproportionately benefit those at the very top.

A number of months ago you had projected that the Trump tax cuts would add--well, this is back during that time, $4.6 trillion to the debt over the next 10 years.

This whole theory of trickle down economics was behind the claims that the tax cuts were going to pay for themselves, right?

Claims going forward that continuing the Trump tax cuts would pay for themselves, as you said is absurd.

We can invest in our security, and in our working families, and our communities, not just to throw money away at billionaires.

But I see this is basically a continuation of the work of January 6. They're basically picking up where the insurrection has left off.