I agree with Senator Graham. We've worked together on this subcommittee for a long time.

I urge you to proactively raise the Columbia River Treaty at every opportunity with your Canadian counterparts.

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It eliminates the Economic Development Administration. It eliminates much of NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, grant funding.

The President has agreed to take action on Canadian softwood lumber, a long-standing point of contention between our countries.

the budget is abysmal. It does not maintain America's greatness. This is not a budget to make America great. It is a budget to diminish America.

The request for the department cuts nearly $1.5 billion, or 16 percent, from the fiscal year 2017 appropriations level.

I expect you to be an independent and thoughtful counselor to the President.

You have recommended severe cuts to our weather and storm warning models.

Americans have a right to clean air and clean water. Your proposal undermines that right.

We wanted to strengthen it. We wanted to expand it. We wanted to reauthorize it.

It is good to have these hearings.

We know the mission of the Army today is unique.

But under this budget, all these dollars just disappear. And you have to ask yourself where do our fellow Americans go who relied on this?

This budget, no matter how you look at it, is going to leave a lot of low-income elderly and disabled Americans out in the cold.

It slices $7.3 billion from the work of your Department. It decimates Section 8 rental assistance grants that help keep very low-income families, as well as elderly and disabled Americans in decent housing.

As an American, I liked the fact that America was the leader, the world leader, in the environment.

The American people know we can have both jobs and clean water, and they don't accept your choice.

the Trump administration in this budget has demonstrated really contempt for the better work that the Environmental Protection Agency does.

Regulation is essential for solving problems like that.

They don't accept your false choice, and they reject the idea of turning the EPA into a polluter protection agency.

The EPA is providing critical support for States and regions across the country working to clean up our lakes, our rivers, our estuaries.

We have a right to clean air and clean water. We accept that as a right in America.

I think it is going to endanger our Nation's natural and cultural resources.

You have stated that you think there are too many burdensome EPA regulations and that you are extremely concerned about how much certain environmental regulations might cost some sectors of our economy.