Chris Van Hollen

This is a slap on the wrist given where we had them.

Why did we reverse that decision?

ZTE hired a lobbying firm here in Washington that spent $1.3 million in a few months and ended up getting their way.

I was astonished when we let them off the hook.

I agree with your analysis about China's long-term plan to essentially steal a lot of U.S. advanced technology.

Do you agree if that is not considered as part of the NEPA review process and guidance pursuant to the President's decision to eliminate that, that will make any NEPA analysis more vulnerable to attacks in the court?

Are you saying agencies will still have the capacity to take into account the impact of climate change when their do their own NEPA analysis?

I look forward to working with him.

Do you believe in the scientific consensus that climate change is real and that its primary driver is human-based generation of carbon emissions?

The last thing I will ask regarding the child separation policy, you know there has been a court decision ordering the Administration to reunite these children with their parents within a certain period of time.

I think it is troubling that you will not share that information with the Committee.

I think it was rightfully interpreted at the time as weakening the authority.

This is an independent agency, is it not?

Discrimination should have no place in society, much less the markets. But it certainly exists.

I hope you will work with us to get a supplemental appropriation, because I am hearing there was an article in Politico the other day saying that the Administration was planning on taking resources from other parts of the Department of…

You are going to play a key role in developing policy as the head of an independent agency.

I share your disagreement with that.

To my knowledge, we have not followed that approach in drafting this piece of legislation here.

I haven't heard from any Democratic Governors who were part of the Western Governors Association about supporting this draft, not a one.

The one thing we do know that tax bill did, the one thing we did know is it is going to add about $2 trillion to our national debt.

The reality is, as we heard, real wages are pretty flat.

The reality is, despite all the hype around here, it is not really going to have an impact on our long-term growth.

It is a great windfall for the accounts of foreign stockholders.

What I have seen is a huge whopping increase in stock buybacks.

Would it be worth looking at greater sort of deterrent mechanisms so that there is more of a burden on the CRAs to get it right in the first place?