Answering congressional inquiries is not a matter of the President's--or, for that matter, a Secretary's--personal discretion.

I think it is one that the cloud that is being created right now by the Trump administration, in terms of non-responsiveness to the Majority in this House, I think is escalating.

Having laws and rules in place is really important but so is enforcing those laws and rules.

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.

President Trump told the Washington Post last month that he opposes the current and former White House aides and personnel testifying to Congress.

Is your purpose to establish valid existing rights on these lands, in order to complicate conservation under a future administration?

With the thousands of leases, already let, yet to be developed, what is the purpose in these sales?

We end up carrying the burden, and especially in a situation such as the one we faced in Montana...

So, it decimates your industry, plus we don't have the ability to clean up most of these abandoned mines.

And do you think that if we don't have a dedicated hardrock abandoned mine land fund, we could ever come close to cleaning up the scale of contamination?

In your testimony, you identified the lack of royalties as one of the biggest problems with the Mining Law of 1872.

Fifty billion dollars?

So, oil, gas, coal, solar, wind, livestock, logging, and outdoor recreation all pay to use the public lands, but mining does not.

We can't do it without it, I don't think.

Cleanup of these sites is critically important. We need to have it happen, and we can't be sitting here again in 5, 10, or 20 years hoping that it will.

I don't understand how the Trump administration's proposed budget cuts to this office would help DOE accomplish this enormous mission.

So, Secretary White, we look forward to working with you to make sure that it actually happens this time.

I remain concerned that EM lacks sufficient staff, expertise, and resources--most importantly, resources--to accomplish the tasks.

I think that robocalls by politicians maybe should be even more illegal than robocalls from everybody else.

I have a strong transparency bill that is going to hold you guys accountable and make you notify how you justify raising those prices.

The people who are suffering are the patients.

As the cochair of the Congressional Diabetes Caucus, this issue is personal with me.

I think this is a good example of the problem that the Members of Congress are dealing with.

Drug makers make excuses for why prices have gone up. They say it's the fault of PBMs, or wholesalers, or the high deductible insurance plans, but the bottom line is that drug prices are set by drug makers.

I resent that very much, because then everybody else is still paying those very, very high prices.