We can't just build a wall around the TSCA office and expect it to perform.

I'm committed to continuing this funding despite the administration's proposal to stop supporting the Navajo in the States in this effort.

this budget is dead on arrival.

We know what we need to do. It is just getting more of that work done, and as long as every year you have to put more and more money into dealing with fire suppression, it just limits your flexibility to provide for the public needs out…

I understand you have launched a pilot program called 'Valuing People and Places,' and that you have been doing work on that in New Mexico.

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 deeply troubled by the Trump administration's proposed fiscal year 2018 budget calling for the elimination of the NEA.

So we need to make sure that we try to do the very best and I think that is the same theme that Senator Murkowski has pushed here today.

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…

I know you dismiss the problem of climate change, but these programs are about the air we breathe and having clean air.

One of the first acts as EPA Administrator was to revoke the food tolerances for chlorpyrifos, a pesticide linked to brain damage and to worker and bystander poisonings.

It's clear that this administration is in a relentless pursuit to undercut and disregard science to the benefit of industry.

The Forest Legacy Program, part of the LWCF, has also been incredibly successful in the 25 years it has existed, thanks largely to the work of our Vice Chairman, Senator Leahy.

This budget with more than 60 percent of funds devoted to wildfire prevention and response is a dangerous step in that direction. It concerns me deeply.

I would be less than honest with you if I did not tell you that this budget was a wreck.

Can you commit to me to helping to steward these issues in New Mexico, and work with the region to bring stakeholders together to address ESA concerns, not just sending them to another Federal agency and passing the buck?

The SRS is critical there, of course, because the Federal Government does not pay taxes.

It means a 30 percent cut to programs that preserve clean air and clear water within the Environmental Protection Agency's budget.