"You pick and choose which laws we comply with and which ones we don't?"
"The withdrawal is a reckless policy, and responsibility for it rests with Ranking Member Grijalva and his co-conspirators, the Department of the Interior."
"The conclusions in the BiOp regarding the finding of jeopardy and its posited cause (nutritional stress from food competition with fisheries) do not follow logically from scientific, economic, and soc..."
"When an agency puts in place a restriction on an industry that will result in a loss of up to $61 million per year and cost 750 jobs, I expect them to be certain."
"Despite this funding, NOAA still is not able to answer the questions regarding whether the commercial fishing industry is limiting the food available for Steller sea lions."
"What is happening in our own hemisphere is certainly just as important, if not more so."
"What administrative action was taken?"
"I am extremely concerned. And I can tell you that as the Chairman of the Oversight Investigation Subcommittee I am not going to let loose of this one."
"What happens when the process fails and veterans die? How do you hold leadership accountable?"
"I can assure you I know what accountability would mean in that case."
"Have you alerted any veterans that their information may have been compromised? And if so, how have you done that?"