This is a bipartisan effort, but--and the chairman and I are friends and he knows me well enough, he knows that nobody does passive-aggressiveness like Minnesotans.

This is a pivotal moment that we are at, pivotal.

I think all of us where you get it, we are trying to separate adequate resources from effective use of those resources.

I am concerned with the process by which this interpretive rule was effectively finalized.

I believe this IR has regulatory effect and that this effect may serve to dis-incentivize the very practices we are hoping to promote.

I respectfully request that you withdraw the interpretive rule.

Our goal is clean water, and that is best achieved by focusing more on facilitating compliance and less on punitive enforcement mechanisms.

I and jointly with Ranking Member Tim Bishop have written a letter to the House Appropriations Committee requesting their support in directing EPA resources towards pilot projects.

We need to figure out a national veterans' policy. We need to have a national focus on this.

We all know there should be one record. We all know that DoD and VA should work together.

We should be stewards of every taxpayer dollar and no veteran should receive a claim that doesn't deserve it.