Dan Sullivan

Did you find any violation of the Clean Water Act in that investigation?

But no one is civilly liable or going to jail, as has happened in the past.

Well, my first amendment as a U.S. Senator, my first bill was actually to disarm the EPA, because I don't think you need the weapons.

There was actually very little coordination with law enforcement when you came in, scared the living daylights out of a bunch of Alaskan miners.

I think the EPA has not shown that it needs these weapons, and I think that is something that the Chicken, Alaska raid in particular demonstrated.

The answer is no. There were no Clean Water Act violations in that raid that was conducted.

But it seems to me that she has that as part of EPA's strategy, kind of like it doesn't matter whether we were right or wrong on the rule because the companies had to comply.

We thank the Committee for its consideration of this bill, and Senator Sullivan for his leadership on it.

Thank you also to Senator Sullivan, for championing legislation today that will help SCF make important progress.

Because this bill has the potential of increasing the pool of these clinicians to serve veterans enrolled for VA health care, VVA supports enactment of this bill.

This is a pretty important issue and I know even Secretary McDonald has met with different Alaska groups.

I do not think, 'we do not want to violate any regulations,' but we also want to make sure that we understand the hierarchy here.

I totally agree with you and that is actually what FITARA says.

Who makes the final decisions on expenditures like this and how are you combating waste?

I certainly plan on voting for Colonel O'Connor, and hopefully, we get him in there soon.

This issue of accountability is an enormously important one for literally millions of Americans.

Mr. Chairman, I just want to reiterate what the Ranking Member said. I think it is really important as a follow-up to this hearing to get a full briefing from senior officials at the VA, but probably more important, senior officials at the…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Well, I think if you do that those would be very important reforms that we would all welcome.

It seems like we are the ones always reaching out, and I think that can be reversed.

At the end of the day, we need to get back to making sure our veterans have the trust and confidence in the VA.

I think that is absolutely what you should have done.

We should not--if there is a major change in policy, we should not be reading about it in the newspaper.

I think it is a very, very dangerous precedent.

Rebuilding the trust between the VA and our veterans.