•HRES 834 IH 
Ms. BASS, Mr. CLYBURN, Mr. EVANS, Ms. PINGREE, Mr. PASCRELL, Ms. 
TITUS, Mr. YARMUTH, Mr. GUTIE´RREZ, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. WALZ, Ms. 
KAPTUR, Mr. LAWSON of Florida, Mr. LANGEVIN, Mr. RUPPERSBERGER, 
Mr. RUIZ, Ms. ESTY of Connecticut, Mr. ESPAILLAT, and Ms. ROSEN) 
submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee 
on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committees on Trans-
portation and Infrastructure, Agriculture, and Science, Space, and Tech-
nology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing no confidence in the Administrator of the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency and calling for the imme-
diate resignation of the Administrator. 
Whereas the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency (referred to in this preamble as the ‘‘Adminis-
trator’’) is a key position in the Executive Branch; 
Whereas the mission of the Environmental Protection Agency 
(referred to in this preamble as the ‘‘Agency’’) is to pro-
tect human health and the environment; 
Whereas the Agency is vested by law with the principal re-
sponsibility for controlling and abating pollution in the 
areas of air, water, land, hazardous waste, noise, radi-
ation, and toxic substances; 
Whereas Scott Pruitt, as Administrator, has misused tax-
payer dollars by spending those taxpayer dollars on ex-
cessive personal conveniences and unnecessary office en-
hancements while dramatically cutting budgets and staff 
for critically important enforcement, research, and imple-
mentation activities; 
Whereas, under Administrator Pruitt— 
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(1) the Agency is hemorrhaging staff and experts 
needed to protect the health, safety, and livelihood of mil-
lions of people of the United States, with more than 700 
employees of the Agency having left or been forced out 
of the Agency during his tenure as Administrator; 
(2) the Agency is seeking to shrink staff of the 
Agency by 3,200 employees (or roughly 20 percent of the 
workforce of the Agency of about 15,000), which would 
make it difficult to implement the mission of the Agency; 
and 
(3) top officials of the Agency 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, by 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 millions of people of the United States; 
Whereas Administrator Pruitt has failed to exercise the en-
forcement authorities of the Agency, which are necessary 
to the fulfillment of the mission of the Agency, and has 
hampered career officials and experts from efficiently 
doing their jobs without political interference by issuing 
a memorandum that required regional offices of the 
Agency to first seek permission from Agency head-
quarters before— 
(1) investigating potential pollution violations; 
(2) requesting information from potential violators; 
or 
(3) requiring additional monitoring from companies 
suspected of violations; 
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Whereas Administrator Pruitt has continually overridden the 
recommendations of the scientists of the Agency in order 
to provide relief to industry, leaving in place the use of 
harmful chemicals, pesticides, and policies that are di-
rectly impacting the health and well-being of millions of 
people of the United States; 
Whereas the Agency is expected to maintain and uphold unbi-
ased scientific credibility, but Administrator Pruitt— 
(1) has undertaken actions directly counter to the 
science-based mission of the Agency by working to under-
mine and censor science, scientists, and researchers; 
(2) has skewed the membership of all advisory com-
mittees of the Agency by removing and barring highly 
qualified, independent scientists from those advisory com-
mittees if the scientist has received grants from the 
Agency, while allowing individuals who receive funding 
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 
research complies with criteria that are intentionally 
nearly impossible to meet; 
Whereas Administrator Pruitt— 
(1) has shielded his actions from the people of the 
United States, including by refusing to make his schedule 
public or provide justifications for his policy and rule-
making decisions, in a way not done by any previous Ad-
ministrator; and 
(2) has claimed unprecedented exemptions on the 
few requests under section 552 of title 5, United States 
Code (commonly known as the ‘‘Freedom of Information 
Act’’), from outside groups that the Agency has re-
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sponded to, masking all but the most basic information 
about meetings, travel, and spending of Administrator 
Pruitt from the public; 
Whereas Administrator Pruitt has lost the faith of the public 
through his continued undermining of basic ethics, par-
ticularly the ethics 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 
regulated 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, Scott 
Pruitt, as Administrator, has failed to faithfully dis-
charge the functions of that office: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that— 
(1) Scott Pruitt should resign immediately from 
his post as Administrator of the Environmental Pro-
tection Agency; and 
(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 Pro-
tection Agency and who is able to fully and faithfully 
discharge the public duties entrusted to the office of 
the Administrator of the Environmental Protection 
Agency. 
Æ 
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