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Hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee - Nominations

Statement

Date: Oct. 2, 2007
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Environment


Hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee - Nomination

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SEN. SHELDON WHITEHOUSE (D-RI): Thank you, Madam Chair.

I just want, very briefly, to relate that in a discussion that I had with Mr. Cochran, he indicated that he saw his role in the inspector general position at EPA as more than just protecting that Agency against financial misdeeds or defalcations, but also to have a role in ensuring that there was process integrity in his regulatory function to make sure that there was no impropriety in the weight that was given, for instance, to industry views that the rules and regulations were followed and that it was an agency in which both environmental and business interests could claim a fair shot.

And I think that is a very important point, and I'm delighted that he sees his role that way. I wanted to make a record of it. And if I may ask unanimous consent that an article from the Washington Post entitled "Bush's EPA Is Pursuing Fewer Polluters," by a full third from Sunday, September 30, 2007, be made a part of the record.

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