Well, Senator Lautenberg, you speak for us all when you talk about your grandkids always. And that is what our work is really about.

One in four people live within four miles of a Superfund site, including 10 million of our children.

During the Bush administration, the pace of cleanups declined by 50 percent compared to the Clinton administration.

The Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance is the safety net that backs up all of EPA's efforts to clean up the environment and protect public health.

I expressed my concern that we have slowed these cleanups dramatically by half.

Cleaning up these sites not only protects public health and safety, but provides jobs and helps to revitalize local communities.

We need to make sure our questions are submitted for two of the nominees by close of business tomorrow.

Again, congratulations on how smoothly this went. And you all just come to us so highly qualified.

The three offices administered by these positions are central to the Agency's mission to protect the public health and to protect the environment.

The way we are going to proceed now is each of us will have 5 minutes to ask questions.

The days of U.S. inaction--and leadership failure--on climate change have ended.

Global warming presents a grave threat to our planet.

I want to thank this panel very much, all of you, for your sage words.

If we do that, I know I speak for Senator Lautenberg and myself, we think this is a great way to not only make measurable progress on greenhouse gas emission reductions, but also to be a model.

We love this attitude of yes we can.

We want to know how that is coming.

We are working across the aisle to write some legislation to see if we can do more to move even faster and further on our GSA efficiency efforts.

if you run into any difficulties making this happen in any way, you need to let us know.

The President has made it clear that enacting a market-based cap on carbon pollution is one of his top priorities.

U.S. climate policy and legislation must respond to the impact that climate change will have on people.

the point of the stimulus bill is to be a stimulus to this economy.

The best and most flexible way to deal with this serious problem is to enact a market-based cap-and-trade system.

If we aim too low, America and the global community will fail to do what is necessary to meet this challenge.

Well, Mr. Prouty, I just want to say I am very excited about your presentation.

I applaud President Obama's pledge to prioritize climate change.