"That check needs to be cut and delivered to Wyoming tomorrow--tomorrow--pursuant to the bill the President signed last week."
"I look forward to you helping our committee get more information about Animas, and I look forward to having a discussion about how the POWER + Program could be used to actually remediate and reclaim."
"Thank you for holding this hearing to follow up on the EPA's Animas River spill."
"Unfortunately, when we finally did get the independent report from Bureau of Reclamation, it didn't hold anyone accountable or find anyone at fault."
"I appreciate your testimony today. I know that it has been challenging to get this scheduled."
"So while you're reviewing the 94,000 comments, you are willing to reengage the 9 of 10 States that chose to disengage because the process was not cooperating agency status in their minds?"
"It makes a huge difference. Just the change in the new Speaker, Speaker Ryan, has brought about that process of cooperation."
"That is just a pro forma process and elevating form over substance."
"Would you, in doing so, be willing to suspend timelines for implementation or releasing a final rule so you would have an opportunity to garner true cooperating agency status from the 9 of the 10 Stat..."
"And if that's true, then there should be no problem releasing the unredacted version."
"While you're going through those 94,000 comments, and if you had an opportunity to reach out to these 9 of 10 States that withdrew from the process because there was no cooperation, it was a command a..."