"I do need to leave to speak on the floor, so I appreciate this opportunity."
"I appreciate your question and certainly your concerns. This is a very tragic and catastrophic issue."
"If your agency's own policy document encourages judicial action when a situation is escalating, why did the EPA wait so long to take action in Flint?"
"Why did that not happen months ago? As you know, every month that goes by with tainted water and children, in particular, who are consuming water with lead that creates irreparable damage to their bra..."
"There should be no ambiguity about that. It should be clear cut, straightforward, that the public has a right to know."
"I have introduced legislation with Senator Stabenow to require immediate public disclosure if a State does not take action."
"We certainly do not want the government to make the Postal Service inept and allow for something like this to happen."
"I feel like we are in somewhat of a death spiral."
"We have to figure out a way so that that does not happen, so that we are not in this death spiral."
"We saddle USPS with the regulations that you would expect from an electric utility."
"We have to continue that service."
"I am a big proponent of maintaining universal service. I think that it is a critical part of the Postal Service."