Tom Carper

Do you plan on taking any steps to repeal or replace the so-called Endangerment Finding, yes or no?

Will you commit to answering the petitions already submitted to EPA by Delaware and other States that request EPA's help on cross-State air pollution within the next 30 days?

I find it incredible that EPA did this seemingly without knowing or caring about potential health effects of its action.

Last week you issued a memorandum to allow industry to increase air emissions of toxic chemicals.

You have also failed to answer at least six State petitions.

Your actions are actually making the problem worse.

You fail at both when it comes to clean air.

I think one of the greatest challenges we have as a country as it relates to environmental issues is the attitude that environmental protection is prohibition.

We should work together to advance an initiative to make sure that we do all we can to clean up those abandoned mines across the country.

I believe that as we consider infrastructure in the first quarter of this year, as we head into the rest of 2018, investing in infrastructure changes to eradicate lead from our drinking water within the decade should be a goal of this body…

I want some real answers. My colleagues want real answers. I think the American people deserve real answers.

President Obama said we had to choose between jobs and growth at the expense of the environment, or choose the environment at the expense of jobs. That is a false choice.

Oversight is a critical part of our Committee's work. Regardless of which party is in power, I am glad that we finally have a chance to hear from Mr. Pruitt today.

Five people die every hour from this opioid epidemic, which means 12 or 13, people have died since we just started this hearing.

I want to thank your staffs on the kind of collaboration that they have demonstrated, I hope with our leadership, to help address this challenge and to bring a sense of urgency to it.

Mr. Chairman, we need to take that to heart, right from the horse's mouth.

Why do we focus on China? Well, that is because that is where a lot of this stuff is coming from.

I trust the Postal Service appreciates its role in helping CBP to combat the flow of dangerous drugs in our communities.

If we are looking at a multilayered strategy, maybe part of that is just to do a better job messaging to the target audience, what is at risk here for them, for their lives and for their families, and we have something that actually works…

2,518 additional officers is what our workload staffing model that is provided to Congress shows is what we need to perform the duties at the ports of entry.

This is a multilayered problem. We need a multilayered approach.

They have not stopped all the hacks from China, but it has slowed them down a whole lot.

Every time we raised this with China, they would say nobody was responsible for it or was actually doing this.

Although the UPU has the stated goal of having all postal services with the ability to exchange item-level data by the end of 2020, there is a difference between the technical ability to exchange data and the realized ability to collect…

That would be an admonition for everybody else as well, OK?