"The American people deserve honesty, transparency, and integrity from their public officials, full stop."
"But I confess, Mr. Chairman, that I'm appalled by the majority's decision to evade and bypass the central events of the epidemic for totally political reasons."
"The broader and authentic context for this hearing is, of course, the spectacular failure of Donald Trump's reckless and incompetent pandemic response."
"In fact, Donald Trump's knowing and willful lies cost America at least tens of thousands of deaths, according to his own White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx."
"That would be a tip-off."
"I introduced a bill to transition the essential functions of PRAC to a permanent entity called the Government Spending Oversight Committee."
"The companion bill to the one I have introduced in the House has broad bipartisan support over in the Senate."
"The director has lost the confidence of Congress at a very urgent and tender moment in the history of the country. And we need to very quickly move beyond this."
"It is another brutal summer in Washington, but, as we say on Capitol Hill, it is not the heat, it is the stupidity."
"Millions of Americans are suffering the health effects of legacy pollution, dangerous air quality, and other kinds of toxic contamination."
"Under the Presidential Administration of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the EPA has taken decisive action to put the health of the people before the profits of polluters."
"There is no doubt that there is industry that wants more of a freedom to pollute without having environmental rules imposed against them."