"Thank you, Chairman Reed and Ranking Member Murkowski, for holding this hearing today."
"I actually have a hold on the nominated Administrator."
"State Revolving Funds, which provide critical support to how municipalities finance water infrastructure projects, will be cut by almost a half-billion dollars."
"the Park Service has to be willing to look at this in a different way than they have before."
"I think there are $220 million of private funds that have already been pledged."
"it's not just one side giving you all their money and saying, 'Do whatever you think you ought to do with this.'"
"I've always thought that your job may be the best job in the Federal Government. I hope for your sake I'm right."
"we need to do the kinds of things that will be a good lesson, going forward, to encourage that."
"I really don't like the sense of that. That the EPA can do things that, I don't know that law enforcement without any reason can just fly around."
"And you would have ultimate authority on the wetlands question based on this veto potential that you always have on an issue like this? Is that right?"
"I do not know how many Senators have holds on the nominee, but it must be so many that there is no interest in doing anything about the holds that are out there."