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House committee here, this committee is supposed to be focusing on epas budget and they will, they will touch on that topic because, of course, democrats have a gripe, a bone to pick with pruitt over the epas budget for 2019. however, a large chunk of this, john, will surround the questions about his ethical issues, whether were talking about that sweetheart deal for that condo where pruitt lived for a short time, it belonged to a lobbyist who was a friend, first class flights, 24/7 security as ...

Accountability in our processes to ensure in each of these areas we get better results and show the american people that we are committed to being good stewards of taxpayer resources, staying true to our mission at the agency, which i believe we are and have, and im committed to doing that. >> i yield back my time. i turn to the ranking member of the subcommittee for five minutes. >> thank you. recently it came out that two epa employees who came with you to washington from oklahoma were given s...

Bulk of the statutes that the epa implements and we decide where the agencys money can best be friend. help me understand your guiding principles for determining legitimate uses of federal money bit epa including whether using any kind of previous spending guidance to make these decision s. >> congressman, i believe as were making decisions, we have guidelines at the agency to drive the decisions. some of them are triggered to the science part of our office. those guidelines govern our decisions...

Presidents support because youre implementing his deregulatory agenda. i think that agenda has real cause. in october 2017, right before epa abandoned the rule-making drew wind, 31-year-old small business owner in south carolina died while usie ining methline chloride. were you or others at epa aware of drew wynns death when the agency abandoned this chemical? >> i think it is important to know that we have a proposed ban in place that is being considered -- >> obviously youre not going to admit...

>> ranking member of the subcommittee for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i listened to your reasons why you havent resign. and basically you said that youre staying because only you can carry out the presidents mission. and i strongly disagree with that. i think oyour actions are an embarrassment to president trump. if i were the president, i wouldnt want your help. i would just get rid of you. im not the president, so let me move on. it has been reported that you have even gone so fa...

Those that are commenting on rules were ill equipped to understand whether the conclusions were rightly concluded or not. so this is an effort, on our part, to ensure that as we do science at the agency, internal at the epa, use third parties, as far as findings, data, methodology and -- should all be a part of the package. >> is what youre trying to do is make more information available or less information available? >> more information available. >> youll require that every one of the decision...

Is that correct? >> i dont ever recall a conversation. >> ill take that as a yes. >> you shouldnt take it as a yes. >> -- you removed the head of the epa office that found you did not face direct death threats. has it always been your practice to fire people who disagree with you? >> the inspector general himself has noted that the threats -- >> youre not answering yes or no, so, again -- >> with the quantity and type of threats and on the record saying so. >> okay. look, six staffers is a patte...

Example that despite what has been said to the achievements that you made that we just -- the epa awarded $1.9 million of research in drink water. people are ignoring the progress were making. and theyre trying to make this another attack on president trump. and unfortunately there is a lot of people that are going to go along with that. if we could, if i could get back to it, one thing that has disturbed me some with the -- as some of the events over the last number of years was we had a good f...

Bypassing or the ppo process not being respected. >> im concerned that you have no idea of what is going on in your name at your agency, especially on an issue already under ig investigation. you spent this week claiming to champion transparency, but on tuesday, you blocked the press from attending an event where you announced a new proposal that will severely limit the agencys use of public health studies and policymaking. when internal e-mails came out about this new policy, they  revealed th...

Administrator. this is offices making decisions on rules based on transparency -- >> i think this boils down to an issue of trust. we pit the public against the industry or youre picking favorites within the industry, and i think there is a hypocritical outcome to it all. with that, mr. chair, i yield back. >> i thank you my colleague for staying within time. the chair recognizes the chairman of the full committee, congressman waldman, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. as i mentioned...