Epa Administrator Gina Mccarthy said earlier this month that Environmental Policies and regulations that affect the lives of americans need to be grounded in quality and transparent science. She testified before the House Science Committee which is chaired by congressman lamar smith of texas. [inaudible conversations] the committee on Science Space Technology will come to order. Welcome everyone to todays hearing entitled strengthening transparency and accountability within the Environmental Protection agency. Im going to recognize myself for five minutes for an Opening Statement and then i will recognize the Ranking Member for hers. The Environmental Protection agency like every other Governmental Institution should answer to the American People. Everyone agrees that we need to protect the environment but we should do so in a way that is open and honest. Democracy requires transparency and accountability. Yet the epas justifications for its regulations are cloaked in secret science. I
Technologies available to it today so it continues to have a path forward. But we dont tend use Research Funds for things that are already been determined adequately demonstrated . Were using Research Funds to try to prove this up youre using it as an example adequately demonstrated. It doesnt make sense. We are coordinating closely with d. O. E. And if you have listened and heard from the d. O. E. Folks today, you will know they share our opinion about its availability and been demonstrated. Its exciting to think that we could make it more costeffective moving forward, and that you could expand the range of sequestration opportunities. So they are actually working very hard with the industry to continue to move that technology forward. That is only good news, sir. Thats not bad news. But we still dont know whether its adequately demonstrated. Gentlemans time is expired. Pursuant to the discussion about the efficiency of the relating to the subpoena. I ask unanimous con stoant enter to
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Funding. Mr. Kaplan, very quickly if you can add to that. My simple answer is that partnership, Publicprivate Partnership has been very successful and, therefore, in my mind we should invest in debt and make it better as opposed to cutting it back. Thank you so much. Thank you to all of you, and thank you to the chairman. I went over my time, so thank you for allowing me to do so. The chair thanks the gentleman appeared that concludes our first round of question. We will go to one followup per site. And dr. Burgess, wel we will bn with five minutes of followup. Dr. Holtzeakin, i want to follow up on the stuff we were talking about earlier in that first round. It appears in washington today there is a crisis in common. The president has sold the Affordable Care act on just a raft of false premises. You can keep your plan. False. You can keep your doctor. Faults. These are broken promises and these in fact are the opportunity cost that americans are paying for the Affordable Care act. Th
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