boards, i know the importance of protecting the information in order to get more participants, and i have also treated children with asthma gasping for air or seniors at their last wit s end. you remove the protections to under the guise of a false transparency notion, you re making life more difficult for everyday american families. this is disgraceful and the american people deserve better. the gentleman s time expired. thank you, mr. chairman. thank you administrator for coming before us. i think that was the first policy question you got from the other side of the aisle. observation. and the public, i think this has been a lot of a classic display of innuendo and mccarthyism that
which she states her hope that her son will be the last to die from this chemical. can we make sure we see the letter? i ll give it to you right now, mr. chairman. again, perfect mr. prueitt, you deregulatory agenda cost lives. you have the power to finalize the ban and prevent more deaths but you haven t done it. do you have anything to say to the families at this point? i was trying to indicate earlier, there is a proposed ban in place that we took comment on that we re reviewing presently. no decision. all right, well, obviously you have nothing to say to the families. you say you will do something but the chemicals are still on the shelves and they make a mockery of the epa. you have the power to get this chemical off the shelves. and you re not doing it. and you should do it. and, again, i appreciate your help with toskia. he s not implementing toskia.
ranking member of the subcommittee for five minutes. thank you, mr. chairman. i listened to your reasons why you haven t resign. and basically you said that you re staying because only you can carry out the president s mission. and i strongly disagree with that. i think oyour actions are an embarrassment to president trump. if i were the president, i wouldn t want your help. i would just get rid of you. i m not the president, so let me move on. it has been reported that you have even gone so far as to retaliate against epa s employees, punishing those who questioned your spending and management and sidelining those who attempted to advance important public health protections. i wanted to ask again, yes or no, because we don t have a lot of time, it has been reported that at least five epa employees were recently reassigned, demoted or otherwise retaliated against after they raised concerns about your spending.
so i wonder if our efforts were totally in vain. thank you. gentleman yields back his time. the chair now recognizes chairman emeritus congressman barton from texas for five minutes. thank you, mr. chairman. i m honored to have the epa administrator back before the committee. mr. administrator, you re not first person to be the victim of for lack of a better term, washington politics. you got picked to be the epa administrator because of the service you provide for the great state of oklahoma in fighting some of the obama administration radical clean air policies. you recommended and i support the recommendation that you made
i want to follow up on what the chairman talked about regarding the rfs and new fuel standards. mr. flores and others on this committee put a lot of time in, it is a priority of mine and theirs, to figure out going forward how we have a standard that works for those who grow corn, those who refine fuels, the auto industry and the environment, and i would hope this administration would look to our leadership in this effort as well as any independent actions or the fact that we re actually a co-equal branch and the house has some authority in this area as well as the senate. will you commit to that? at the end of the day, certainty is very important in this area. and i think you see tremendous investment over the last gentleman s time has expired. i apologize. we got a lot of people lined up. we ll have more time to talk about that. thank you, mr. chairman.