There may be discretion on delay, but delay can cost people lives, so there needs to be a sense of urgency on public health.

The obligation of the EPA is to implement the laws that are passed by Congress.

I have a major concern for the safety of the people in Baltimore.

We just reauthorized the Chesapeake Bay Program, the Federal role in the Chesapeake Bay Program by unanimous vote.

This is not hypothetical; it happened just a few weeks ago.

I am prepared to move on corporate tax reform, but not by increasing the deficit.

I have been listening very carefully to this hearing, and I think the last point, Mr. Shay, is pretty telling...

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I really do believe this is one of our most important hearings we have had this year.

But that evaluation will not include Congress.

But do these arms not affect the policy considerations we are talking about here, particularly the message we are sending?

So if that is true, why did we labor over the Turkish sale and cancel it?

the people of this country probably have focused more on what happened in Washington, D.C. against peaceful protesters and the extrajudicial killings in the Philippines.

this is a direct affront to congressional input that you all thought was important.

All military and security-related assistance to foreign governments and personnel, including military-to-military programs, are part of the U.S. foreign assistance and must serve U.S. foreign policy.

I just want to share Senator Booker's frustration. I have had to exercise my authority to call the Secretary of State.

I would hope that there is a closer relationship than just complying with the congressional mandate.

I am concerned that I do not see that commitment as definitively as I want.

it does look like an end run around Congress.

The U.S. law mandates that the Secretary of State supervise and oversee all foreign assistance that service that U.S. foreign policy.

I believe strongly that we have had a very robust conversation with the Nigerian Government on the importance of human rights.

So I am just going to--one of the individuals in Maryland whom I was with today, Peggy Roche, was talking about her daughter who has absence epilepsy.