Pruitt's version of cooperative federalism is a one-way street toward more pollution.

Cooperative federalism should mean that EPA and the States work together to reduce pollution.

It is that particular situation, I think, where we have to be very careful about how cooperative this federalism gets if you are not dealing with the polluted State as well.

Thank you, Chairwoman Stefanik.

A lot of us in coastal States are seeing very significant harm to our ocean environments.

However, increasingly bold rogue actors and technological advances are challenging the strategy's goal of ensuring that the U.S.

So I believe that a whole-of-government effort is required to support CWMD strategy and policy.

We owe a great deal to our veterans, and it is, I think, discouraging to all of us when we see them without adequate housing, and too many of them are in that situation.

I think in Rhode Island a few years ago, thought we were at that moment, and in fact, ironically and unfortunately, our homelessness population of veterans is going up.

Well, you know, again, my concern is that it is more than close, and particularly, you point out some of the higher-price areas of the country where the--if you could consider even increasing the voucher, that would make a difference, but…

I wish the President were more vocal on this front.

I do not want to hear just the good-news story. I also want to see how has the underresourcing and the marginalizing of other Federal agencies, such as Department of State, affected the CWMD effort.

In 2014, the Department released its strategy for CWMD, which outlined three end states: that no new actors possess WMD; that there be no WMD use; and that, should WMD be used, that there be a minimization of their effects, with associated…

A typical Rhode Island family with an infant and a 4-year-old pays $23,000 a year in child care. That is nearly double the cost of tuition at the University of Rhode Island. Nationwide, the cost of child care has increased 25 percent in…

It's really sad that it has come to this state of affairs.

this is, as some of my colleagues have already referenced, a huge crisis. It's a genocide.

I see your role as not only executing a budget but being a forceful and passionate and effective voice for development and humanitarian assistance.

no country is a representative democracy if it isn't listening to all of its people...