The broader and authentic context for this hearing is, of course, the spectacular failure of Donald Trump's reckless and incompetent pandemic response.

The companion bill to the one I have introduced in the House has broad bipartisan support over in the Senate.

I introduced a bill to transition the essential functions of PRAC to a permanent entity called the Government Spending Oversight Committee.

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.

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.

I am in favor of this legislation. I yield back the balance of my time.

I urge my colleagues to support this legislation offered by the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Sorensen), and I yield back the balance of my time. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion offered by the gentlewoman from South…

I urge everyone to support the legislation, and I yield back the balance of my time.

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.

Most Americans want the EPA to be doing more.

We believe that climate change is real and is a dagger pointed at the throat of humanity.

It is another brutal summer in Washington, but, as we say on Capitol Hill, it is not the heat, it is the stupidity.

There is nothing that should be partisan about the pursuit of clean air, clean water, clean working conditions.

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.

Your problem is the jury system in New York which found unanimously that Donald Trump was guilty of 34 criminal felonies.

Well, if there are brainwashed cultists on the issue, it is the people who are following the conspiracy theories of QAnon and assert that scientists like Dr. Fauci are trying to invent diseases.

Millions of Americans are suffering the health effects of legacy pollution, dangerous air quality, and other kinds of toxic contamination.

I wanted to pose one question to Ms. Tlaib and then one to the Administrator.

Americans want the EPA to be doing more to stop climate change, not less.

There is no doubt that there is industry that wants more of a freedom to pollute without having environmental rules imposed against them.

I certainly hope he does not try to steal the election the way he did last time.

That is why Congress set up the EPA. That is why Congress set up the National Labor Relations Board. That is why Congress set up the Department of Justice.

Joe Biden beat him by more than 7 million votes, 306 to 232 in the electoral college.

But I see this is basically a continuation of the work of January 6. They're basically picking up where the insurrection has left off.