Chris Van Hollen

It worries me, as a window into politicization at the EPA, that is captured in this other article as well.

Is it appropriate that this entity was doing searches on EPA employees to determine whether or not they were 'part of the resistance'?

It needs to be based on the law and the merits, not on politics?

You would agree, would you not, that it is important that EPA's decisions be based on the facts, be based on merit, be based on the law and not on politics? Would you agree with that?

You like to tout that the U.S. is--your quote--'actually at pre-1994 levels with respect to our CO2 footprint, thanks to innovation and technology.'

You repeatedly insist that you are committed to cooperative federalism.

Your words--you often say that 'rule of law matters.'

This EPA--under your leadership, Mr. Pruitt--is waging a war on climate science.

Mr. Chairman, with all respect, we have just heard that we are going to face close to a $2 trillion revenue shortfall as a direct result of what was passed.

I would like to see the same transparency in their methodology that we are requiring of CBO in theirs, and JCT.

The Penn Wharton budget model, which estimates that if you do what the House Republicans want to do, you would increase the Government debt by over $5 trillion over the next 20 years, and actually reduce GDP because of the drag on the…

I believe you said the JCT number was $657 billion. Now, that is only additional for the 3-year window. Is that right?

Instead of going to that purpose, they are going to stock buybacks, and foreigners own a 35-percent share of the value of U.S. corporate stocks, so they are getting a lot of that.

Mr. Chairman, I think that the public needs to know that, and in the interest of transparency, we will do our best to let them know.

$1.8 trillion. And that, if I recall--did that include the interest on the debt?

I do not think it is surprising that there is additional revenue coming in.

Did you ever get a detailed analysis from the Trump administration with respect to the impact of their tax plan?

Who has a more transparent open process with respect to what the public knows about how they go about their work, CBO or OMB?

If you look at the stock of American companies, 35 percent of that stock is currently owned by foreigners.

To the extent that the Republican tax law boosts gross domestic product more than gross national product, it is because some of that income from increased economic activity is flowing to foreigners instead of Americans.

The claims that the recent tax cut would pay for itself were pure fantasy.

And what these numbers tell us is that when it comes to real buying power, people are actually slightly worse off this month compared to this time last year.

They have actually seen a slight decrease in their real wages over the last year.

With the tax cut, as it accelerated, the economy gave a sugar high that all of a sudden regular folks were going to get an increase in their real wages.

We are seeing a sugar high right now put on top of an economy that was already doing very well.