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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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