The last administration acted with particular malice towards our environment, consistently under-funding critical EPA programs and personnel and working to dismantle or weaken over 100 environmental laws.
DeFazio criticizes the previous administration's environmental policies and funding cuts.
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It is not excusable for this to be happening. These are special items, sometimes irreplaceable or nearly irreplaceable items and certainly in the short term. This has got to change.
I just really think, even when we finally get to three functional, modern, major icebreakers, I mean, you still have the Antarctic mission and other things.
But I am proud of the work of this committee, and this Congress as a whole, these last two years--to defeat that sense of inertia and deliver for the American people.
He is an honorary member of our union, and I am proud to call him my friend.
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