I was originally heartened by your commitment to toxics reform, but last week EPA announced new policies that would weaken the risk evaluations at the heart of the program.

I am also very concerned about the hostile position that this administration has adopted towards national monuments.

Can you please confirm that you intend to continue the longstanding practice of responding to written questions and correspondence from both majority and minority Members of this subcommittee as quickly as possible?

I know as a Congressman you did that with the Tribes in Montana and so I take you at your word that they are going to be meaningfully involved in this.

This budget reduces funding for purchased and referred care by over $14 million.

Pruitt's choice to destroy carefully vetted scientific information rather than preserve it is a reckless and dangerous abdication of his responsibility.

We owe it to the Navajo Nation, the Navajo people, and others harmed by this spill to ensure that they are compensated for business losses and property damage they've suffered.

I do not want New Mexico to lose her.

what is the official Trump administration position on accepting the scientific evidence that manmade climate change is occurring?

I would urge you on the available science and data to act quickly.

are you aware that there are more than 20 alternative chemicals available to farmers?

The drastic cuts that the President proposes will only hurt our students.

I believe is one of them. I have been to the refuge. I have floated down the Hula Hula River. I have seen all the wildlife that is there, so I disagree with your budget proposal to drill there.

We very much appreciate Congress's decision to increase overall education funding for fiscal year 2017 by $39 million above the fiscal year 2016 funding level.

I need your assurance that EPA is going to take a comprehensive look at chemicals and their impacts on public health and the environment, not a limited review focused solely on uses that help shield chemical companies from regulation of…

This budget claims to take care of the agency's core functions by focusing on existing Federal lands rather than grants or new land acquisitions.

I simply do not understand why it is a bridge too far to ask the oil and gas industry to implement common sense measures.

It looks to me like this budget proposes to create a foregone conclusion that State-delegated environmental programs die on the vine.