"The budget you are submitting this year cuts the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative by 90 percent, $270 million, which isn't even enough."
"For us this is a life-and-death issue, and I just don't see that the EPA is serious."
"I need your help. We need the help of the Government of the United States to protect our people."
"Administrator Pruitt, thank you for your endurance here today."
"So why don't you have any job openings listed for Region 5?"
"I can guarantee you the Veterans Department is also short on behavioral specialists and neuropsychiatric doctors as we face a crisis with PTS and with extended deployments."
"If you can take a look at the doctors and the advanced practice nurses, I would be very interested in the percentage of Native Americans in total that you hire or contract with."
"Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman and Rear Admiral Weahkee. I wanted to follow on some of my colleagues' questions..."
"It took an inordinate amount of time."
"I reissue my invitation to you, and I think I speak for Mr. Joyce as well. Mr. Administrator, come to our area."
"Though this is the Reserve panel, the prior panel on the Guard, last year, in the Guard, 132 soldiers committed suicide."