"I understand the Agency offered to provide us with a witness on other dates if the committee wanted them."
"Lead is a potent neurotoxin, exposure to which is known to cause serious educational deficits in children."
"cut the administration a little slack for trying to do something versus nothing."
"So that would be pretty disappointing too, don't you think, if there is not even a budget submitted by the legislative branch of the House?"
"I appreciate that testimony."
"It was rejected on the floor, but it is important."
"So not all low-income people live in metropolitan areas, do they?"
"If you have to make these tough decisions, as you highlighted earlier, right, you have got to make decisions of hospitals, EMT, all this other stuff."
"What do you think you would do?"
"Absolutely. And we do have programs that help do that."
"And that is what the rural people are going to be concerned about is that we are going to put in more rules, more regulations and they are not going to be able to fulfill the promise of safe drinking ..."
"Flint happened because of money and politics."