It is great to have our first kickoff hearing. Appreciate your leadership.

I just think we have to be really careful what we tell the Americans.

I am particularly troubled by the largesse of this request because I am not convinced that EPA is using the resources it already has effectively.

Medicare Advantage is a critical choice for seniors in West Virginia, 43 percent, and it is growing every year.

I applaud it. I have been complaining for years that we can't get this level.

Can you provide assurances that the proposed policy changes will not lead to increased beneficiary costs?

I think we need to do a better follow up here on the--certainly on the ones that are suspect, and certainly around the industries, and others that are exploiting our--any child.

What I am really looking for is some substantive feedback on how we can improve the Section 7 process.

I think it foments confusion.

An amendment by Senators Jon Tester and Shelley Moore Capito was adopted that closes a loophole...

To me it is just mind boggling in this time of fiscal restraint where people are really watching their dollars, this kind of overreach and overspending.

I hope they would move quicker, I think that state primacy issue is absolutely critical to move forward, to cleaner environment, to capturing, and sequestering, and utilizing the carbon.

The EPA has received enormous funds, enormous amounts of funding.

I really appreciate your willingness to meet and talk and how seriously you take your commitment to testify.

It is interesting that you would phrase it that way, because my understanding is that there have been clinical trials, that there is science-based evidence, that this does move the needle.

So the IRA will directly cause closures of natural gas and coal powered plants in all certainty.

We are desperate for something to help. This has been--gone through clinical trials. It has positive science behind it.

Doesn't it seem like 27 percent of the dollars that the IRA, which none of us voted for, is going to go to administrative costs, is that really providing environmental justice?

I went through a water crisis with heavy chemicals in my own municipal system.

All Americans deserve this. We deserve to have reliable, affordable water and sanitation.

I would also like to thank you for finally, after many years of me banging the gavel and the gong and also with the Chair to set that safe drinking level for PFAS.

But you are not doing this and this.

All Americans deserve this. We deserve to have reliable, affordable water and sanitation.

Certainly, safe, clean, and healthy water is at the top of the list for all of us.

I rise today with great concern to talk about the bloated budget that President Biden has put forward and, really, what it says about his vision for the future of our country, because a budget is a vision. As my Republican colleagues and I…