[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 98 (Wednesday, June 13, 2018)]
[House]
[Page H5139]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                              SCOTT PRUITT

  (Mr. HUFFMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HUFFMAN. Mr. Speaker, the Trump administration is the most 
corrupt in our country's long history. They are enriching themselves 
and rewarding special interests and campaign donors like nothing we 
have ever seen. If you need proof, look no further than our polluter in 
chief, Scott Pruitt.
  Every day brings another Pruitt bombshell. Just today, news broke 
that, last year, he enlisted a top EPA aide to ask big Republican 
donors to help his wife find a job, eventually securing her a position 
with a conservative political group, Judicial Crisis Network. We have 
learned about similar efforts involving Pruitt's attempt to secure a 
Chick-fil-A franchise for his wife using EPA resources.
  He raised millions of dollars as attorney general of Oklahoma from 
oil, gas, and coal companies for his campaign. He chaired a dark-money 
group that organized State challenges to clean water and clean air 
protections. He sued the EPA 14 times as Oklahoma AG to block public 
health protections while raking in campaign contributions from his 
polluter co-litigants.
  He is facing more than 12 Federal investigations into his corruption, 
influence peddling, and waste of millions in taxpayer dollars on his 
lavish lifestyle.
  Mr. Speaker, in any other administration, at any other time, he would 
have been fired long ago. It is time for Pruitt to go, and it is time 
for Congress to do something about the toxic corruption in the Trump 
administration.

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