Timothy H. Bishop: “One of the mantras of this committee over the last 18 months has been that we need to do more with less.”

Should we not use this as a catalyst? I mean, and not just talk about conversations and not just talk about yes, we are looking at it and we are studying it. Let's do it.

I hope we can all agree that is a good thing, and I hope we can also all agree that that improvement would not have happened were it not for the Clean Water Act.

We do want a rule that restricts the scope of authority under EPA, based on the Supreme Court rulings that both have said that their scope is not unlimited.

However, I am troubled by the tone taken by this Congress in carrying out its oversight activities of the current administration.