Diana DeGette

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.

We need to know what kind of relationship we are going to have with you, as an equal branch of government, from now on.

I am concerned that this stonewalling will escalate to a constitutional collision, from crisis to collision.

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.

The lack of transparency and accountability concerns this Committee a great deal.

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

Many of the leases being let are in priority habitats for conservation purposes.

Gas and oil are a glut on the market. Should lease sales, at minimal prices, be your priority?

Massive numbers of leases for energy development are being let under your administration.

What additional steps are you taking to ensure that the BLM's oil and gas leasing program aligns with your stated commitment to big game?

Will you stop offering oil and gas leases in wildlife corridors and priority areas?

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Fifty billion dollars?

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

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

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

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

The people who are suffering are the patients.

The system is broken, and it has grown up in a way over time that people didn't anticipate.