Are there enough of them?

The mission of the EPA is simple. It's 'to protect human health and the environment', not to protect industry friends.

The question is, is that, have you worked with any of those programs?

This is a human health and safety issue that's been in place for decades.

the communities want to be heard.

Having Montana input and local input on the Superfund cleanup process is absolutely essential.

Maintaining safe and reliable rail service is absolutely critical for moving our passengers, as well as our goods, to their destinations.

They've got to have the manpower, they've got to have the resources, or it doesn't happen.

the EPA budget request reflects your commitment to refocusing EPA on its core mission to protect human health and to protect the environment.

I want to work with you to ensure that the special account money that was set aside in the initial settlement for Libby cleanup are used to the maximum extent to benefit Libby.

The Empire Builder is the lifeblood of many of these rural communities and I am concerned about the impacts this decision might have on Havre as well as Shelby.

If I'm a crook, wouldn't I go to the small ones?

They're going to go to the weakest link in the fence, the bad guys are.

we need to have a budget that will get us there.

With that goes the opportunity to potentially listen to that input and change those decrees to meet the needs of the community.

we should be striving for zero, don't you think?

The community needs to have input, so they need to know what's going on.

It's crucial that we put the health of Montanans first in undertaking the site cleanup and--and this is very important--we do this with the utmost transparency.