On the recordJuly 7, 2015
I thank the gentlewoman for her comments. It is the law, and that is all I am trying to substantiate, but I have read to you not from an organ of the conservative Republican Party side, but from The New York Times. They also went on to say: The architect of the EPA's new public outreach strategy is Thomas Reynolds, a former Obama campaign aid who was appointed in 2013 as an associate administrator. He said this in relationship to flash mob tactics and the lobbying efforts: We are just borrowing new methods that have proven themselves as being effective. Mr. Chairman, it may be effective, but it is unseemly that EPA, an agency of the Federal Government, would violate the law in lobbying and trying then to show Congress through trumped up evidence that they have produced through lobbying the private sector that they have support for the waters of the U.S. rule. Mr. Chairman, that is why I think we need to establish it here very clearly in this appropriations bill. I reserve the balance of my time.
