Betty McCollum

You clearly understand that there are some places that are just too precious to mine.

But as we all know, more work remains to be done, and the total Federal share of the National Air and Space Museum is going to reach $650 million.

I would appreciate that, and I do mean we are out of compliance.

As two-thirds of the total American Indian and Alaska Native population are urban Indians, this lack of funding has an impact on healthcare services provided to them.

Every year in this hearing, I focus on the stark contrast between the health of Native Americans and Native Alaskans and the rest of the population of the United States.

It is clear that citizens of this country expect to be treated fairly and with equity.

Unfortunately, the Trump administration's latest supplemental request falls short in many areas, including education and housing.

This Administration's willful denial of the threats of climate change is reflected in the Department of Interior's budget, which cuts funding for climate change research and mitigation by an appalling 80 percent.

I take your sincerity in answering Ms. Lowey's question about wanting to look into answering her question about how the endocrine disruptors are going to be funded for the research in the future.

Unfortunately, President Trump's fiscal year 2018 budget request is a cruel and, I believe, a reckless plan...

So, you can have a conversation with us and say you are going to look into this and say you are going to make sure that these things are going to happen, but I do not see how it can happen when you are cutting the EPA's overall budget by…

I am curious to know how it happened that you were there a month, and then this is reversed.

The budget you have come before us today to support would endanger the health of millions of Americans, jeopardize the quality of our air and water, and wreak havoc on our economy.

the budget cut to the categorical grants to States and tribes of 40 percent is just going to be a nonstarter here.

The Trump Administration's Fiscal Year 2018 budget abandons EPA's responsibilities to the American people by proposing a $2.4 billion cut, a 30 percent cut.

This is the only mining in Minnesota that I have come out forcefully against, in part, because of its location in the watershed.

I think when science is looking at what to do about pesticides and toxins in these chemicals, they have to do no harm as their first goal.

The most recent and most reckless action, in my opinion, was the withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, which has made the United States a environmental rogue Nation.

This budget is the latest expression of the Administration's willful denial of climate science.

I am asking you in public, could you please talk about the potential consequences for the wildlife, the waters, and the forests in the BWCA and the adjacent lands if there is a discharge, a leak, or a spill from the sulfide mine, all of…

I want to begin by saying how profoundly disappointed I am that President Trump is withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement.

States have the ability to return this responsibility back to the EPA, so we have to keep this partnership moving forward.

But we have to put them out publicly to send a signal to the White House of our displeasure.

Mr. Trump campaigned last year on an agenda that included allowing companies to pollute our air, and our water, and our land.

I think the Indian programs within the Department of Interior, these are people who get up every morning and want to do the best job that they can.