FDA plays a critical role--in fiscal year 2017 alone, FDA oversaw more than 3,600 recalls.

FSMA significantly reformed FDA's overall approach to food safety.

I am amazed when I hear my Republican colleagues talk about how they brought CHIP to the floor and they brought community health centers to the floor. What they forget to mention is that every time they did that, they included pay-fors, in…

I have the greatest respect for my Republican chairman from Oregon, but he just forgets completely, as so many speakers on the GOP side have, that they are in the majority, and they have a significant majority. They can do whatever they…

Isn't the mission of EPA and the Superfund program to protect human health and the environment? Isn't that the reason?

But, again, it's kind of ridiculous that I have to ask you these questions. But EPA's recent actions, in my opinion, have called into question whether the Agency is still focused on the most dangerous sites.

But that's the very thing that actually may bring more people and economic activity to Newark or to the area.

myself and many Democrats on this committee have, you know, introduced legislation to try to reinstitute the trust fund and reinstitute, you know, the tax on the oil and chemical industry that will provide more funding so we don't have to…

Public office is a public trust and that's especially true for the Superfund program.

It is essential that this committee conduct oversight of the controversial and, frankly, confounding implementation decisions being made by President Trump, Administrator Pruitt, and the rest of the political leadership at EPA.

See, my concern is that this task force report and the substantive targeted list could lead to inadequate cleanups and not robust cleanups that are really protective of human health and the environment.

This administration has gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid transparency with the public and with Congress.