"Most recommendations to cripple the process try to limit public notice and comments and are undemocratic."
"The FAST Act, based in large part by the Rapid Act promoted by Mr. Shimkus, was passed in 2015."
"Even the business roundtable has said that we should be looking at existing law, not layer on new laws to the NEPA process."
"I agree with just about everything that my colleague just finished saying and I hope... we are kind of reaching the end of our tether."
"So that, to me, is a powerful analogy and, frankly, where it gets my head, just to send a shudder through the panel here today, is to the idea of regulation approaching a kind of utility regulation wh..."
"Do you agree that as EPA administrator your job is to protect public health and the environment by serving the public interest and not wealthy special interests?"
"The Democracy Reform Task Force, which I am privileged to chair, has been monitoring the Administration's progress with respect to draining the swamp."
"I am mentioning it because it really makes a lot of Americans anxious when you consider the conflicts of interest that this suggests."
"Despite the fact that as Oklahoma attorney general you sued the EPA challenging the Bay TMDLs previously, you also pledged with Senator Cardin that you would support the federal government's role in C..."
"Now we have pushed back against that, but that is hardly a follow-through on the pledge that you made to Senator Cardin."
"I hope that you will bring some real attention to these conflicts as we move forward."
"I want to echo Congressman Cummings' concern about making sure that naloxone is available in a way that it should be."