I think I tried to explain in my questioning to Mr. Andersen, that it can endanger entire communities and create a downward spiral that's difficult to emerge from.

cutting these monies seems to me to be, not just inefficient, but rejecting a commitment we should have.

Let's not pretend that economic shocks don't affect the budget.

I am still reeling from the proposed House Republican budget which would substantially cut EPA.

You can't insure what you can't predict.

House republicans want to add three trillion dollars to the debt by extending the Trump tax cuts for the rich.

There is absolutely no acceptable or safe level of lead exposure, for our children, or for anyone.

The proposed Republican budget would slash $626 million from that program, would set it back tremendously.

Thanks a bunch.

We still need other major interventions.

I urge you to support a completely broad, across the government, multi-agency, not just you and a DOJ task force to respond.

It matters a lot to us in Rhode Island, and I suspect in Massachusetts as well, and I suspect Delaware as well, as downwind States.

unless we have a regional approach to issues of pollution, et cetera, we can't, literally, effectively control the quality of water in Narragansett Bay.

The way that I have described this is that climate change causes weather anomalies, and those anomalies make events harder to predict.

What we do here now will not just have impacts for thousands of years, it will be remembered for thousands of years.

Can we please find ways to extend that, because it seems to have worked very well, at least according to everybody in my recovery and treatment community?

If there is anything that you can do to help facilitate that, I think that would be particularly helpful and welcome.

That is an actual $2.2-trillion savings in health-care spending below what CBO forecast.