Diana DeGette actually said...

"Let me be clear about something: When the EPA fails to enact clean air protections, it is our communities, and our families, and our environment that pay the price."

"If the EPA wants to continue to ignore this committee as we perform our oversight responsibilities, that's its choice."

"Why they would ever consider weakening a rule that protects babies' brains is senseless, and this must be called out for what it is."

"We have one of these communities right in my congressional district, Swansea-Elyria and Globeville, where we actually had to go in and remove mercury from the yards of the homes there."