I think this is the thing, and we have heard it before, I mean it is hard to fathom that this kind of stuff happens or the pettiness that goes on.

The core mission of the VA needs to remain intact. We need to strengthen it.

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.

I stand with you to get it done.

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

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

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.