I want to offer an invitation to Minnesota, and I want to tell you that I will guarantee that you will be treated with the utmost respect even if people have very different opinions than you hold.

Yes. Well, that's too bad, because what they're saying they're -- according to Short, anyway, they're willing to ignore clear ethical lapses and corruption on behalf of Pruitt.

Yes, Scott Pruitt should resign. He's under investigation for as many as 10 different sorts of ethical lapses, of having -- gaining of discounted place from the lobbyist who has business before your agency to me alone is enough.

In my opinion, it's a ridiculous response, but I will tell you this. It wasn't the ringing endorsement that I've thought I heard before.

the big scandal is, you know, the larger question of abandoning environmental protection, actively working with polluters to make life easier and more profitable for them.

I think this is absolutely unacceptable; 50 years since the passage of the Fair Housing Act, which banned discrimination in lending.

This bill increases the chance of another crash and the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the bill will increase the likelihood of another bailout.

Just 10 years after big banks crashed the economy, Senate Republicans and some Dems want to roll back the rules that we put in place to prevent the next crash.

I am disappointed that the Senate is likely to pass this bill today, and I can promise this committee that I will do everything in my power to stop it when it comes over to the House.

Ending DACA would be a nightmare for America's economy.

Operation Chokepoint started in 2013. It has now been officially ended. That is important for the record.