Barbara Boxer

I think that was a huge mistake. And if it wasn't for Ms. Brita, we might not even be here.

This is decades long.

We demand that those individuals, we must demand that those individuals be held accountable for their actions.

When I hear the Inspector General, whom I admire so much, who had to take so much verbal abuse in the past, and who stuck with it, when I hear him say he is looking, he is turning over rocks, and every time he turns over a rock, something…

We have zero tolerance for fraud in any way.

We have to protect against bad people, because there are always going to be bad people.

Thank you so much, Mr. Miller.

To those who betrayed the public trust, let me be clear: the party is over.

The latest misconduct at the GSA makes me cringe, cringe for the taxpayers who expect every agency in their Government to fulfill their mission with integrity.

We are going to need to have more oversight.

So given the recommendations of the Inspector General that there be more checks and balances and more centralization, what is your take on it at this point, Mr. Tangherlini?

We are equally grateful to the chairman and the other members of this subcommittee and staff, for their continuing efforts in funding critically needed operations and maintenance funding of all our Nation's ports both large and small…

78 percent said, of likely voters, that they were in favor of the EPA updating these standards.

I have never, never heard that when I go home.

I do not like the cuts in the Radon Program. Again, I think it is essential.

I find it rather amazing that one small agency would be blamed for all the troubles we are going through.

But on this one, we are miles--we are different planets.

We will see up to 11,000 premature deaths avoided every year.

I would like to get the transcript, the answer that Administrator Jackson gave me.

We are doing our job. And we have put a lot of money behind keeping our water clean.

I wanted you to respond whether you think that level of cut would, in fact, threaten the health of our children and our families.

We have had more domestic drilling, to the point where in 2011 American oil production reached the highest level in a decade.

This small be important investment helps States to monitor water quality of public beaches and protects the public from sickness caused by water pollution.

I would put in the record, well, I just want to put a fact in the record that you make a point I should have made, that funding to the States--and that includes the tribes--accounts for the largest percentage of your budget request.

I wanted that on the record because we battle on the floor on this and we are going to keep on battling.