Diana DeGette actually said...

"Your Department makes land management decisions every day over the land that you supervise."

"I was a little bit perplexed when you said that to make land management decisions, with climate change taken into account, that you needed direction from Congress."

"I introduced legislation to ban Chlorpyrifos. It is H.R. 230. It has 105 co-sponsors, more than 10 committee chairmen are supporting my legislation."

"I want to be clear that answering congressional inquiries is not a matter of the President's--or, for that matter, a Secretary's--personal discretion."