We are grateful for the Draft Bill, and the leadership of its authors, Representative LaHood and Chairman Gosar.

It must work well on the ground, of course, and as our field practitioners are studying the Draft Bill, we will offer additional feedback in the coming days.

I want to thank the witnesses for your valuable testimony here today, and I am honored to be the author of this proposed legislation.

Cleaning up abandoned mines is challenging and expensive. That does not make it any less imperative.

With the $455 million July payment and a deal ending at the end of the month, if the parties are not able to come to agreement we should, as a Committee, consider whether to amend PROMESA to include PREPA negotiations.

When this plan was certified by the Oversight Board, it treats constitutional debt as a last expense.

There is significant evidence that the previous Administration manipulated the social cost of carbon calculation.

Too often, loan guarantees were handed out based on political favoritism instead of merit.

this rule cannot go forward

I can't find anybody that thinks this is a good idea

this isn't in fact a law, this is a rule implemented by EPA that really circumvents Congress and circumvents the Constitution

I actually sent a letter to President Obama, where I asked him to have Director Jarvis resign from his position, and I fully stand by that letter today.

The SBIR program is an important source of investment in new technology for the State of Illinois.

I would just say at the outset, it is troubling to me to hear your response to Mr. Beyer's questions, almost a dismissive nature of these breaches and kind of the nonchalant answers that you've given, particularly with the backdrop of…

should incidents such as this that we're discussing today be reported to Congress within a timely manner?

there seems to be a predetermined path or there seems to be kind of a rigged process.

I am concerned about the process and how that was not followed in this case.

I guess in looking at what the President and the administration are doing in Paris, you know, the words that come to mind in some respects is almost illegitimate in terms of the pact or agreement that they're working on.

I have real concerns about that.

Air quality in American cities is the best that it's been in a century.

$47 billion in gross state product loss between 2017 and 2040, 35,000 lost jobs or job equivalents per year.