Tom Udall

By my count, there are 14, including the inquiry I requested today.

The public deserves real answers.

I am worried you are spending all your time enriching yourself and your friends while betraying your mission to protect human health and the environment.

This budget request is also dead on arrival because it is completely tone-deaf to reality.

The budget request before us today is dead on arrival because it would pull out the rug from underneath every single State in our country and decimate critical public health and environmental programs.

I think it is extraordinary that so many previous administrators of the EPA, including Republicans, have lambasted your leadership.

I called on you to resign.

It's clear that I've had policy disagreements with you from the beginning and that I opposed your nomination.

It's a simple yes or no.

Do you support Special Counsel Mueller completing his investigation?

That was done after the fact.

Senator Van Hollen has all the documents. We'll put them all into the record.

We'll put all the documents in the record, and you can make your arguments to the----

However, these innovations raise questions about children growing up in a digital world.

I think there's good bipartisan support, and Senator Shelby's trying to proceed in the direction so we don't have any more of these CRs and we do our bills on time.

I write to request a legal opinion from the U.S. Government Accountability Office concerning whether the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) violated the annual governmentwide statutory prohibition on the use of funds for publicity or…

Yes, and we really appreciate what you did in New Mexico.

That is our point here.

Doesn't the public have a right to comment on the development of their public lands?

Mr. Secretary, you raised King Cove. Maybe Senator Murkowski is more up-to-date than I am on that, but could you provide the committee an update on the Izembek road?

I strongly urge you to not move ahead unless the plan amendment has been signed and there has been robust Tribal consultation and input from stakeholders.

Well, I think the reality is that, State flexibility, it ends up that we end up deteriorating the habitat for the sage-grouse.

Well, they weren't doing it on the sage-grouse until everybody got together and tackled that.

I would also point out that we have an example of where the bureaus were able to do that already, the regional sage-grouse plans at your Department, and your Department is now in the process of scrapping those.

I appreciate you want to improve resource stewardship by getting bureaus to focus on regional landscapes and to work across Federal, State, and local lines.