This package of amendments represents more areas of consensus that were able to come together in bipartisan fashion in support.

I want to thank Ranking Member Carper and Senator Inhofe and Senator Cardin, all the members of the Committee, and their staffs for their hard work on this bill.

if we are going to truly address big issues like climate change, we are going to have to find compromises that can work for both parties.

There is a moral imperative to deal with these issues.

I am proud of the bipartisan work we have done together on this legislation.

We need something big, and to the extent that we can actually produce that, hallelujah.

It is shameful. It is just shameful that we are not addressing these problems.

I want to raise an issue regarding Section 1041, a provision related to the benefit to cost ratio, known as BCR.

I am delighted to be here and partnered with our Chairman.

The concern you put forth in your letter is that if the OIG 'has formally signed off on spending it is now investigating,' the OIG would lack the requisite impartiality to review the agency's actions.

This isn't cooperative Federalism; it's flat-out abandonment.

The fiscal year 2019 budget proposal is yet another giant blinking sign that you don't take your responsibility to this country seriously.

Your scandals are a mere sideshow distracting us from the long-lasting devastation your leadership is making on human health and the environment.

Both your scandals and your policy decisions abuse your position of public trust and make a mockery of your responsibilities as head of EPA.

Senator Tom Carper, D-Delaware, who requested the probe, says Pruitt's four-day trip to Morocco last month was inappropriate.

That is not good enough. I mean, these companies, they are highly seasonal. They need the folks now.

If our roles were different and you were the Senate and I was the Secretary of the Department, we would issue those 69,000 visas.

We have an obligation, I think, a moral obligation to help.

We have to help the countries as well with the push-and-pull factors.

They come here because their lives are not just difficult, their lives, in many cases, are horrendous. We contribute directly to that.

I was filling up my Chrysler Town & Country minivan with gas last weekend, and I noticed the price in Delaware is up to about $2.80 a gallon for regular gas. That is up by close to $1 above what it was not that long ago. I remember that…

Maintaining marine infrastructure such as public ports is essential to our Nation's economic future.

this has been a great hearing

I was sitting next to Tom Udall in a meeting earlier today, and I am sure he would want to convey his warmest regards and his thanks for all the help you provided when you were a member of his staff.

The role of the government is to do for the people what they cannot do for themselves.