Well, wouldn't that be of prime interest to the Inspector General's office?

You are the watch dog. You are responsible for assuring the integrity of the scientific data that is driving these policy proposals.

Now, given the well-documented complaint of political tampering with scientific data made by the official directly responsible for overseeing the scientific integrity of these studies, your statement that there has been a 'complete absence…

This omission is glaring enough, to call for a separate hearing on this subject.

Where is the outrage?

One of the concerns that has been expressed here at this hearing and elsewhere, Ms. Kendall, is a complete lack of focus on the principle responsibilities of the Inspector General.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would like to get back to the Klamath Basin for a second.

When executive agencies like yours write laws, execute those laws, and adjudicate those laws, they are short-circuiting all of these checks and balances that protect the freedom of our Nation.

It is absolutely no coincidence that, as the cheapest forms of electricity like coal are being replaced under these lunatic policies with the most expensive forms of electricity, that Americans' electricity rates are skyrocketing.

Louis Brandeis once said sunlight is the best of disinfectants. And it seems to me that this Administration, which has become the most secretive in our history, is in desperate need of such disinfection.

Coal is one of the cheapest forms of electricity that we have available to us, and one of the most abundant resources of our Nation.

Congress and Congress alone has the constitutional authority to legislate.