Tom Udall

The reason is, is under Federal law, you are required to ban a pesticide if you cannot prove with reasonable certainty that the pesticide is safe.

Thank you very much. Please do that for the record.

I think we recognize the disparities between health outcomes for American Indian and Alaska Native people compared to the population at large are staggering, just staggering.

Do you agree that we should focus on what we can do to incentivize advanced biofuels rather than only promoting more conventional corn ethanol?

I need your assurance that EPA is going to take a comprehensive look at chemicals and their impacts on public health and the environment, not a limited review focused solely on uses that help shield chemical companies from regulation of…

So we need to make sure that we try to do the very best and I think that is the same theme that Senator Murkowski has pushed here today.

They are concerned about returning to an era of IHS healthcare rationing.

I am concerned that this budget cuts $99 million from IHS facilities despite the Service's estimated $10 billion construction backlog.

Please provide the EPA scientific analysis and recommendation presented to you on your decision to reject a petition to revoke food tolerances for chlorpyrifos.

I would urge you on the available science and data to act quickly.

One of the first acts as EPA Administrator was to revoke the food tolerances for chlorpyrifos, a pesticide linked to brain damage and to worker and bystander poisonings.

We owe it to the Navajo Nation, the Navajo people, and others harmed by this spill to ensure that they are compensated for business losses and property damage they've suffered.

Pruitt's choice to destroy carefully vetted scientific information rather than preserve it is a reckless and dangerous abdication of his responsibility.

Is it your position that EPA has no role in regulating methane pollution?

There is a bipartisan sweet spot on this issue if we can get the information from you and then try to move forward with some legislation.

Do you not know of any official position?

What is the official Trump administration position on accepting the scientific evidence that manmade climate change is occurring?

We very much appreciate Congress's decision to increase overall education funding for fiscal year 2017 by $39 million above the fiscal year 2016 funding level.

The drastic cuts that the President proposes will only hurt our students.

We can't just build a wall around the TSCA office and expect it to perform.

Madam Chair, that's my final question.

I'm concerned that it has led to widespread land conversion, to corn to produce ethanol, which Congress did not intend.

The court settled the regulation of CO2.

Are you aware that there are more than 20 alternative chemicals available to farmers?

I'm committed to continuing this funding despite the administration's proposal to stop supporting the Navajo in the States in this effort.