None of these legal actions have been successful against that operation which was set up, as I understand it.

There are a number of bills here in the Congress to try to achieve these designations.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Jim, it is a pleasure. This has been a very interesting pleasure this morning to listen to you and to listen to your statements and your response to the questions that were put to you.

There are compelling reasons to believe that hydraulic fracturing may impact ground water and surface water quality in ways that threaten human health and the environment which demands further study.

When that bill passed here in 2005, it was based upon the false assertion that was made by your agency under previous Administrators, that there was no need to have this information out there.

Natural gas is a very good, high quality product that we should produce in effective ways, but it has got to be done in a way that is safe and sound and secure, that is not going to damage a lot of other people who may live somewhere in…

There is no honesty now that is required in the context of having to reveal what they are putting into the ground, including the toxic chemicals.

Thank you very much for everything that you are doing.

I also want to thank you for your mentioning of New York several times. It is a very interesting place, and it has been very much involved in initiatives of various kinds over the history of this country.

I want to express my appreciation for this committee and the leadership of Norm Dicks for providing the funding that we need and that you are using so effectively.

the loss of that money over this long period of time. The prescription drug plan and I mentioned the war in Iraq and all of those things are the issues that we are dealing with

We have right now the greatest concentration of wealth in the wealthiest 1 percent of the people of this country since 1929.