I am very concerned about the direction of the EPA in this Administration.

if it proposes cuts again, I hope we will have your support, continuing to preserve those programs.

We heard from President Barack Obama that we had turned the corner after the surge deployment.

During the time that you have now been Director, the agency has taken 15 actions related to air quality. Fifteen of those diminish air quality, and zero of them improve air quality.

Well, outside observers are finding the opposite. So I do hope that we will get details from you showing that in fact you are working hard.

I think it is important for us to have a complete picture of the view.

If I have to pay higher wages and higher environmental standards with higher enforcement and higher OSHA standards, safety standards, it is going to be much more expensive for me in Oregon than it is for you, making the same thing in…

I encourage you also to look at Canada and to look at Brazil, which have reached the logical conclusion, where we started from, that asbestos is hazardous, and they have banned it.

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I had difficulty getting the numbers on the individual tax provisions, what they would have costed, to better understand individual policies.

Wouldn't working America be better off if you design a tax decrease that actually helped working Americans?

The Joint Committee on Taxation estimated $1 trillion of cost added to the deficit. Penn Wharton estimated $1.4 trillion.

I do think it is an important point to make because what we have seen for a pattern that has increased our debt vastly has been Republican leadership has repeatedly taken us deep into the red, Democratic leadership has reduced that damage…

So that really is a significant problem when you design a plan for the richest Americans, try to sell it for workers.

I will just close by saying that our children are now financing the biggest theft of money delivered to the wealthy in America, and this is what you normally see in corrupt, irresponsible, Third World governments, not the United States of…

How about accountability? How about that concept being embedded in the work of what was our consumer watchdog that now is our consumer 'roll over and let the big companies scratch its belly' organization?

Which is more important: educating our children or more money for the Koch brothers?

Now, this tax plan borrowed $1.5 trillion from our children, and then when the benefits flow out through these buybacks, only 3 percent goes to working America and $221 billion, as you say, goes to the richest Americans.

I am really disappointed to see that the philosophy of this administration ran on of fighting for ordinary Americans became just this is an administration by and for the powerful.

And if you do not have it, how did you possibly get to an overall score if you did not cost out the individual provisions, right?

But my point is that initial analysis, be it $1.4 trillion or $1.8 trillion, to get to that analysis CBO had to look at each individual tax provision and what it would cost.

$17 out of every $20 in the benefits from the tax reductions goes to richer Americans.

Let us give $1.5 trillion in the tax bill to the wealthiest Americans and proceed to cut our health...

Which is more important to you: people having housing or $6 billion to Exxon Mobil?

Everything we see in this budget is about help to the powerful and an assault on working Americans.