On top of this blanket exemption, the bill also hands complete rulemaking power to the Fed rather than having checks and balances inside the executive branch, paving the way to completely gut the Volcker rule. You know, Fed Chair, formerly…

I thank Ranking Member Waters for her constant leadership to restore prudent banking to this country and rein in reckless speculation. When six megabanks in our country control over 75 percent of the wealth, that is too much power in too…

I thank the ranking member for yielding. This phony balanced budget amendment is an old, sad Republican rerun. The only real answer to deficits is responsible budgets. America doesn't need this phony constitutional amendment meant to cover…

At this spring season of new life, please let us pay tribute to the spirited life of a visionary woman dedicated to high learning and civic improvement, Mary Regula from Ohio, who tragically passed this last week. As an educator first, her…

It took an inordinate amount of time.

To have this kind of ignorance by the EPA, I consider at this point in our history, to be un-American.

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 the shallowest of the five Great Lakes…

You provided really good data on diabetes, and the improvement is remarkable.

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.

Neither of which showed that much concern about what was happening to Lake Erie.

The budget you are submitting this year cuts the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative by 90 percent, $270 million, which isn't even enough.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman and Rear Admiral Weahkee. I wanted to follow on some of my colleagues' questions...

I reissue my invitation to you, and I think I speak for Mr. Joyce as well. Mr. Administrator, come to our area.

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.

Administrator Pruitt, thank you for your endurance here today.

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.

I also want to let you know that the Superfund program, which is very important to us, is terribly short-staffed in Region 5.

I need your help. We need the help of the Government of the United States to protect our people.

So why don't you have any job openings listed for Region 5?

For us this is a life-and-death issue, and I just don't see that the EPA is serious.

Across our country, following West Virginia's lead, teachers in Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Arizona are demanding change and showing the power of unified action. Teachers and school support staff have a simple request: a fair wage, funding to…

Although I support the inclusion of a $2.7 billion increase for opioid prevention, treatment, and recovery, this funding only nibbles at the edge of the problem. This is a national crisis. It must be reflected in a real plan to meet the…

I thank the gentlewoman, the ranking member, for yielding me this precious minute. I want to augment my remarks of earlier this afternoon and thank Jaime Shimek of our own staff who worked so very, very hard on the Energy and Water…

I thank the ranking member for yielding me time and for her incredible work on this bill, and also the chairman of the full committee, Chairman Frelinghuysen. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of this bipartisan agreement before us and want…