Thank you for working in such a bipartisan way to convene today's hearing and for your support through the entire process.

Yes, Senator, we would be very supportive of legislative measures that continue to promote increased obligations for transparency.

Nationally, communities seem to be focused on finding PFAS chemicals, but primarily looking at only a handful of those PFAS chemicals.

PFAS chemicals strike me as very similar. They seem to be used everywhere.

I believe that everyone in this great country should have access to safe drinking water, and I want to do everything I can to ensure that the Federal Government is effectively managing this crisis.

Thank you, Senator Hassan.

I think it is important that we work on that number, especially as you are updating these numbers in the months ahead.

Yet residents of Oscoda are frustrated, to say the least, and I believe justifiably so, with the slow pace of both the State and Federal action in that area.

Well, we will have to do a deeper dive then, because these are the numbers that have been presented to me.

Certainly, with the detention docket or the detained docket, in 40 days we process folks and get them out.

I would like to follow up, Mr. Chairman, with all of you to get a sense of what sort of analysis has been done by each of your agencies to take a look at this.

How long is too long, do you think, to detain a child in a detention facility?

our Nation is suffering through a public health crisis. Our Nation, our neighbors, our families--in fact, very few among us can say that we have not been personally impacted by the opioid crisis. The scope is simply staggering; 116 lives…

3,000 deaths is not a number invented to attack the President, as he claims. It is the acknowledgement of real human lives.

I raise the issue of chemical facilities because I have heard that inspectors... are worried that they do not have the appropriate knowledge and training.

Americans should not have to worry that in a time of crisis, a true national emergency, that our commander in chief would cast doubt on very real, very human impacts of the crisis.

I have been a proponent of improving our understanding of geomagnetic disturbances from space weather for some time now.

I would hope that we would do that.

I was disturbed this morning to see that the President took to Twitter to make false claims about the death count in Puerto Rico.

I'm proud in Michigan, in addition to being a leader when it comes to autonomous vehicles, that we are also a leader in autonomous marine research.

I appreciate that, Mr. Chairman.

It's absolutely critical that they have TSA staffing necessary for West Michigan.

Thank you for your service every day in this very important job that you have.

We've been getting some resistance from House members who have suggested that the bill may not be needed.

Having an authorization for this program sends a message to the people in control of some of those discretionary-type internal funds.