"I consider the two districts you represent extremely predictive, as to how we are going to live in this new century."
"I want to personally say thank you for that. I think it is an important step, and I look forward to hearing your remarks here."
"We respect STEM very much but we put an A right in the middle. STEAM."
"I think over a thousand or more implementing agencies locally, 50 states, territories, several federal departments..."
"I wore this color today for a reason. Last June I invited you, and I think it is fair to say Congressman Joyce joined me in this, to visit Lake Erie, the 12th-largest freshwater lake in the world and ..."
"You provided really good data on diabetes, and the improvement is remarkable."
"I also want to let you know that the Superfund program, which is very important to us, is terribly short-staffed in Region 5."
"To have this kind of ignorance by the EPA, I consider at this point in our history, to be un-American."
"One could say that over the last couple of years that there wasn't any real willingness on the Federal level, nor on the State level, to deal with this lake that is so sick."
"According to a Federal judge, who ruled just recently, you have ignored your duty as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for this Nation under the Clean Water Act."
"Neither of which showed that much concern about what was happening to Lake Erie."