Are you aware that the State fines have also diminished over the last couple of years?

In fiscal year 2018, the EPA enforcement actions, injunctive relief actions resulted in $3.9 billion in injunctive relief.

To me that would suggest that the Federal Government needs to step up even more and occupy this space in an aggressive and responsible way.

I think there is plenty of evidence here that the mission you have of fair and effective enforcement of environmental laws... is not being fulfilled based on the numbers that we are seeing.

The Voting Rights Act has transformed the political landscape of the South and it is a good piece of legislation.

House Democrats feel very strongly about it, and we are determined to have full and effective enforcement of the Voting Rights Act.

We focused for years on racial gerrymandering, but now we are awaiting the decision on political gerrymandering.

We have reached a point now in our history when it has risen to the level of extreme partisan gerrymandering.

I can't understand for a moment why anyone would support that kind of a policy shift.

Why...we wouldn't view that as going back to the bad old days...I can't understand for a moment why anyone would support that kind of a policy shift.

it seems to me, to claim, as we are hearing from a lot of the Members on the other side, that they absolutely want to protect people against discrimination based on preexisting conditions, on the one hand, but to defend these short-term…

It is incompatible, it seems to me, to claim...that they absolutely want to protect people against discrimination based on preexisting conditions...but to defend these short-term limited duration plans.

we are inviting people back into a world with mirrors and trapdoors that was exactly the place we wanted to get away from when we passed the ACA.

you are buying the healthcare equivalent of a pig in a poke when you are buying these short-term limited duration plans.

You are buying the healthcare equivalent of a pig in a poke when you are buying these short-term limited duration plans.

the administration was finding ways to test this out before they moved into a more official posture on it.

Climate change is real. The need to protect the environment is real.

We want a healthy environment for our children, grandchildren, and their children.

H.R. 1 kicks off what I hope will be a wave of reform.

In my 14 years there, I have been intimately involved in protecting the principle that public service is a public trust.

People are sick and tired of being sick and tired, to use Fannie Lou Hamer's words, at a system that is run by somebody else.

Because when you step into that system, you step into a system that is owned by the people.

The American people gave this Congress and this committee a mandate to restore our democracy and cleanup our government.

We now find ourselves in an ethics crisis. The trigger was President Trump's refusal to divest his conflicting financial interests.

If you just do one and you don't do the others, we're still frozen out; the system is still rigged.