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MAZISA06 SLE. 11578 CONGRESS 2b SESSION S. 6 Expressing no confidenee in the Administrator of the Environmental Protee- tion Agency and calling for the immediate resignation of the Adn trator IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Mr, UpAL (for himself, Mrs. GILLIBRAND, Mr. CaRPER, Mr. BENE, Rooker, Mr. VAN Hones, Mr. MERKLEY, Ms, StanENow, Ms. COR- ‘ne Masro, Mr. Duwi, Mr. Heiser, Me. BLUMENTHAL, Me. Mare KEY, Ms, WARREN, Mr. Wirrenouss, Mr, PeTERS, Mrs. FRINSTEIN, Mr. MENENDEZ, Mr. NELSON, Mr. ScituER, Mrs. Murray, Ms. KLo- puenar, Ms, BALDWIN, Ms, Hassay, Mr. WyDEN, Ms. Shai, Mr SANbERS, Mr, Casey, Ms. Hanns, Ms, CANTWELL, Mrs. SHAHEEN, Kane, Mr. Brows, Mr. Coons, Ms. Hmoxo, Mr. Waren, Ms, DuckwortH, ) submitted the following resolu tions which was veferved fo the Committoe on RESOLUTION ‘trator of the Enyi- Expressing uo confidence in the Admi ronmental Protection Agency and calling for the imme- diate resignation of the Administrator. Whereas the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Ageney (referred to in this preamble as the “Admini Executive Branch; trator”) is a key position in th Wher (refer ‘as the mission of the Environmental Protection Age to in this preamble as the “Ageney”) is to pro- tect human health and the environment; MAZES305 SLE. 2 Whereas the Ageney is vested by law with the principal re- sponsibility for controlling and abating polkition in the areas of air, water, land, hazardons waste, noise, radi- ation, and toxie substances; Whereas Scott Pruitt, as Administrator, has misused tax- payer dollars hy spending those taxpayer dollars on es cessive personal conveniences and unnecessary offiee en- hancements while dramatically cutting budgets and staff for critically important enforcement, research, and inuple- mentation acti Whereas, imder Administrator Prnitt— (1) the Agency is hemorrhaging staff and experts needed to proteet. the health, safety, and livelihood of mil lions of people of the United States, with more than 700 employees of the Ageney having Jeft or been forced out of the Agency during his tenure as Administrator; (2) the Agency is seeking to shrink staff of the Ageney by 3,200 employees (or roughly 20 percent of the workforce of the Agency of about 15,000), which would ion of the Ageney; anke it, difficult to implement the mi and (3) top officials of the Ageney have been granted permission to also work for private companies while em- ployed by the Agency, creating major conflicts of interest with their positions at the Agency; Whereas, hy delaying the effective date of regulations, easing enforcement of existing regulations, and delaying imple mentation of new regulations, Administrator Pruitt is helping polluters at the expense of the health, safety, and livelihood of mitlions of people of the United States; Whereas Administrator Pruitt has failed to exercise the en- forcement authorities of the Agency, which are necessary aAZAiUG SLC. 3 to the fulfillment of the mission of the Agency, and has hampered career officials and experts from efficiently doing their jobs withont political interference by issuing a memorandum that required regional offices of the Ageney to first seek permission from Ageney he: quarters hefore-— (1) investigating potential pollution violations; (2) requesting information from potential violators: or (8) req suspected of viokitions; ing additional monitoring from companies Whereas Adininistrator Pruitt has continually everridden the reeommendations of the seie i provide relief to industry, leaving in place the use of tists of the Ageney in order harmful chemicals, pesticides, and policies that are di veetly impacting the health and well-being of millions of people of the United States; Whereas the Agen ased scientific credibility, but Administrator Pruitt— y is expected te maintain and uphold unbi- (1) has undertaken actions directly counter to the science-based mission of the Ageney by working to under mine and censor seience, seientists, and researchers; (2) has skewed the membership of all advisory com- mittoes of the Agency by removing and bareing: highly anatltied, mittees if the seientist us received grants from the Agency, while allowing individuals who receive funding independent scientists from those advisory com- from industry to serve on those advisory committees; and (3) is attempting to paralyze the ability of the Agen- cy to set health-based pollution standards by restricting the use of scientific research by the Agency unless that DINATSI08 Se, 4 research complies with criteria that are intentionally neatly impossible to meet; Whereas Administrator Pruitt (1) has shiclded bis actions from the people of the United States, including by refusing to make his schedule public or provide justifications for his poliey and rile- making decisions, in a. way not done by any previous Ad- ninistrators and (2) has claimed unprecedented exemptions on the few requests ander section 552 of title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the “Freedom of Information Act”), from outside groups that the Ageney has re- sponded to, masking all but the most basic information about meetings, travel, and spending of Administrator Pruitt from the public; Whereas Administrator Pruitt has fost the faith of the public throngh his continued undermining of basie ethies, par- ticularly the ethies of impartiality (such as by renting a below-market priced room in a condominium owned by an energy lobbyist with clients who had interests that are vegnlated by the Agency), and is tarnishing the reputa~ tion of serving in public office at the Agency; and Whereas, for the reasons described in this preamble, Seott Pruitt, as Administrator, has failed to faithfully dis- change the functions of that office: Now, therefore, be it 1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that— 2 (1) Scott Pruitt shonld resign immediately from: 3 his post as Administrator of the Environmental Pro- & tection Agency; and MAZISRO6 oN aH bow se 5 (2) the President should appoint to the office of Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency an individual who will be committed to the fulfillment of the mission of the Environmental Pros tection Ageney and who is able to fully and faithfully discharge the public duties entrusted to the office of the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.

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