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Monday, June 11th, 2018

Republicans stop Democrats from helping EPA investigate Scott Pruitt’s ever-growing scandals

Author:     KYLA MANDEL
Source:     Think Progress
Publication Date:     JUN 6, 2018, 4:16 PM
 Link: Republicans stop Democrats from helping EPA investigate Scott Pruitt’s ever-growing scandals
Stephan:   Scott Pruitt is so clownishly corrupt, and such a crude grifter that I take him as a measure of corruption of the Republican majority in Congress and the ineptitude of the Democratic members. There has been no other administration in American history that a man this slimy could hold high public office, and I think we should see him as a benchmark. A kind of test strip to reveal the state of American government.

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt arrives to testify during a Senate Appropriations Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee hearing in Dirksen Building on the proposed FY2019 budget for the EPA on May 16, 2018.
Credit: Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call

House Republicans on Wednesday afternoon blocked an effort by Democrats to increase funding for the agency’s watchdog, which is tasked with investigating the many scandals surrounding agency administrator Scott Pruitt.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Inspector General (OIG) has in recent months seen an increased workload due to the more than a dozen investigations launched into Pruitt’s spending and management decisions during his first year as administrator.

But voting along party-lines 21-26, Republicans rejected an amendment introduced by Rep. Mark Pocan (D-WI) to increase the OIG’s funding for 2019. “It’s hard to imagine that there is a more overworked inspector general than at the EPA these days,” Pocan said. “This is not a Democrat/Republican thing, this should be a good government thing.”

The vote comes after it was reported in February that the OIG did […]

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