it has become a political blood sport to try to destroy anybody associated with the Trump administration

I appreciate your good work to focus EPA on the mission Congress has tasked it with in statute.

We expect you to answer these questions fully and truthfully.

I appreciate the work that your Agency has done on that.

Bringing new transparency to your public processes, especially when it comes to the data and science that underpins policies, is truly a welcome change from past EPAs.

We are also here to discuss the role foreign direct investment plays in growing the American economy and creating jobs.

It appears that it has become a political blood sport to try to destroy anybody associated with the Trump administration.

I am concerned that the good progress being made on the policy front is being undercut by allegations about your management of the Agency.

I have had a lot of constituents over the years who have been very concerned about decisions in various agencies that get made by Administrators or the bureaucracy, and in some cases they can't get access to the underlying data that…

It is important that EPA not be bloated, but it is essential that EPA have the staff with proper expertise.

I share your view that we can and must have both in America.

I thank Dr. Burgess and appreciate his leadership on this issue and the hard work he and his members on both sides of the aisle have done on the Subcommittee on Health in the Energy and Commerce Committee. As we all know, the opioid crisis…

I would like to commend the agency for its recent unanimous vote finalizing the rulemaking allowing for distributive energy resources to compete in wholesale markets.

I look forward to hearing directly from the FERC commission on this and other important issues.

We are delighted that you're here.

Our nation's energy industry is at the forefront of an unprecedented period of change driven in part by changes in fuel mixes, technological innovation, and market competition.

I also have some concerns regarding the recent policy change determining how impacting stakeholders may intervene in pipeline review.

It is a priority for the country. And we intend to move forward one way or another.

The Energy and Commerce Committee takes our obligation seriously to get the fuels and vehicles policy right. It is about time.

We've called you here today for two reasons: One is to examine alarming reports regarding breaches of trust between your company--one of the biggest and most powerful in the world--and its users.

I believe that that would be the worst thing we could do. I believe it would stifle innovation.

Whether it is Facebook or any other company, there has to be a willingness on the part of this Congress to step up and provide policy protection to the privacy rights of every American consumer.

The incident involving Cambridge Analytica and the compromised personal information of approximately 87 million American users--or mostly American users--is deeply disturbing to this committee.

I think we need an answer to that. I think we need to get these off as soon as possible.

Does Congress need to clarify whether or not consumers own or have any real power over their online data?