"I appreciate your taking the time to be here today. I am especially pleased because I have had a question that I have wanted to ask you now for almost 2 years."
"You now have--you see these. Can you respond by next week with the un-redacted documents, or provide a specific explanation why it was redacted?"
"I want to ask you about the renewal of the mining leases right next to the Boundary Waters Wilderness in Minnesota."
"We are talking about a study that was halfway completed and got canceled abruptly."
"We would like to see the un-redacted pages, or an explanation of why they are being redacted."
"My staff went through all of those, and roughly 2,700 pages were completely unrelated to what we asked."
"Do you anticipate in your thinking the level of sea-level rise, what you see in terms of specifically in terms of how that will impact your infrastructure, and what sea-level rise you anticipate in th..."
"I don't want to deal with climate changes with just adding to tourism."
"I am disappointed that DHS has diverted these funds, and what is the impact of the diversion of these funds going to be?"
"During times of heavy rain, wastewater systems have failed, which results, you know, then when we allow for this, weeks-long closure of our beaches and our waterways."
"So you are saying rely more on the States and so increase or allow the States to propose these blending programs rather than provide the infrastructure because this is an old and, in many cases, infra..."