Dan Kildee

A congressional law is absolutely, under separation of powers, takes precedence over any rulemaking of an agency.

I think as we are talking about all the technicalities today, we need to really consider how this is affecting the American public on a broader scale than things like rulemaking and whether Congress should act.

It is long past time for us to have a national strategy about how we approach and invest in America's cities and towns.

If we see a president who is willing to declare an emergency for something that the Congress itself already deliberated and disagreed with him on...

I would ask very serious consideration be given to whether those priorities are a real reflection of what it takes to protect Americans.

I would really beg that the Administration take a close look at the priorities.

The idea that you should somehow negotiate harder I think is a bit of an insult to the collective bargaining process and to the work that the people you represent have done.

This Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was a jobs cut and tax act.

Unless the focus is on how we strengthen the American worker and not how we reward those people at the top who are already doing quite well, we are going to see more of this.

Thousands of people losing their jobs after promises that thousands of people would be hired by the same company.

In the lead-up to the so-called Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, we heard promises made by lots of companies about how this tax cut would allow them to create thousands of jobs for American workers.

Look, this tax bill picked a clear set of winners and losers, and I think today's testimony is helping to shine a bright light on just which groups and which industries in particular were deemed worthy of relief by this Republican tax bill.

We cannot say, research has not said that we can attribute those gains to the tax cuts.

I think that those families that are hurting the most to pay for childcare, to pay for their child's needs, need to be helped.

Not worthy enough to maintain it at its current level; not worthy enough to take the bet...

Easing suffering does not necessarily mean we cannot also do something positive and have a positive economic impact.

I disagree with the analysis, but I understand that is your point of view.

I have here a published, peer reviewed study from the Journal of Criminal Justice that points out that the eligible activities in CDBG, which include demolition of vacant and abandoned properties, has a positive impact on violent crime.

So you think crime is adequately funded; fighting crime in this country is adequately funded?

But we sit here today a year after these comments were made by Mr. Pruitt, and the EPA has still not regulated these chemicals.

What has the EPA done to penalize, hold them accountable, for poisoning the water supplies of Americans?

I simply do not accept those arguments. Inaction will not make this public health crisis go away.

Despite the Defense Department knowing about this PFAS chemical contamination at Wurtsmith since 2012, the military has failed to act quickly enough to stop contamination coming from the former air force base.

Thank you, Chairman Rouda and Ranking Member Comer, for inviting me to speak here today and for your leadership on this issue addressing PFAS chemicals, which is a public health crisis impacting literally hundreds of communities across…

It is unclear why the DOD feels justified in passing the buck to the EPA.