Do you believe in climate change or not? Yes or no? And it's an easy yes-or-no question.

The President has accused climate scientists as having, quote, ``a political agenda.''

they view the practice of transparency as a nuisance. Whereas most Americans see transparency as essential to our democracy, this Administration responds to oversight requests as if they are Presidential harassment.

I believe that the U.S. role and its leadership on this issue can't be overstated.

Leading up to and during his campaign, the President dubbed climate change, 'a hoax,' 'a total hoax,' 'an expensive hoax,' and 'a total and very expensive hoax.'

FOCA requires committee meetings and records to be open to the public.

They view the practice of transparency as a nuisance. Whereas most Americans see transparency as essential to our democracy, this Administration responds to oversight requests as if they are Presidential harassment.

This kind of rhetoric, I believe, is really designed to mislead the American people, and will delay critical congressional action in order to maintain the profits of polluters.

We support your effort to ensure meaningful and effective measures to control climate change, an immediate challenge facing the United States and the whole world today.

Avoiding FOCA would make it easier for the White House to stock the panel with climate change deniers.

In light of this history of climate denials, I'm deeply concerned about President Trump's dangerous statements on climate change.

We believe that we need to act now for future generations.

If we fail to act now it is scientifically irrefutable that there will be catastrophic and irreversible consequences for humanity and our planet.

The Green New Deal is a bold and ambitious at its goals. It doesn't really stipulate how to get there.

189 Democrats, every single Democrat, voted no on this Republican tax bill because they understood that the benefits would go mainly to the wealthiest individuals.

we will live wealthy and on the hog, and everybody else will get the crumbs whatever is left.

I see it as the modern day version of 'Let them eat cake.'

those who saw it as a victory were part of an elite class of Americans who represented the wealthiest in the country.

the day the Republicans passed their tax plan, there was a televised celebration in the White House Rose Garden.

the winners are clearly the haves, and the losers are clearly the have-nots.

the benefits primarily of this tax bill went to the wealthiest individuals in the country and the largest corporations.

So here's the problem. Here is the problem with everything you said, because you're trying to say--tell us--you're trying to tell us that it was a DOJ request.

I like how the Secretary has crisp yes-no answers when the Republicans are asking, but when the Democrats are asking, that's not the kind of answers he gives.

But the evidence shows that you and your staff had been trying to, for months, to find an agency, any agency willing to make this request.

I do not want us to think that it has to be one or the other. Job training is crucial. Crucial.