06/13/2011
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"I would call on the commissioners to enact civil disobedience and disregard the chairman's edict."
"opening statement"
"The problem, and the reason we've cut your budget, is that your agency, is prioritizing new rules and regulations that Congress never told you to pursue in the first place."
"Since Republicans took the House majority in 2012, we've used our power of the purse to readjust EPA's budget from the outlier levels of 2009 to something more in line with the trend set for 2008 spen..."