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Wide shot of Senate Appropriations subcommittee              2. Cutaway of EPA...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eRESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              SHOTLIST:\u003cbr/\u003e              POOL - AP CLIENTS ONLY\u003cbr/\u003e              Washington, DC - 16 May 2018\u003cbr/\u003e              1. Wide shot of Senate Appropriations subcommittee\u003cbr/\u003e              2. Cutaway of EPA chief Scott Pruitt\u003cbr/\u003e              3. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Lisa Murkowski, (R) Alaska:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Unfortunately, I am concerned that many of the important policy efforts that you are engaged in are being overshadowed because of a series of issues related to you and your management of the agency. Instead of being asked about the work that you were doing on WOTUS (Waters of the United States) or the Clean Power Plan or the Superfund program, I'm being asked, really constantly asked, to comment on security, on housing and travel. Instead of seeing articles about your efforts to return the agency to its core mission, I'm reading about your interactions with representatives of the industries that you regulate.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              4. Cutaway of Pruitt listening\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Wide shot of Sen. Udall opening his questioning\u003cbr/\u003e              6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Tom Udall, (D) New Mexico:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Administrator Pruitt, it's hard to know where to begin this morning. Every day there seems to be a new scandal, and you at dead center. Your tenure at the EPA is a betrayal of the American people. You have used your office to enrich yourself at the expense of the American taxpayer and public health, and such abuses have led to several investigations. The EPA inspector general is investigating your -- your luxury travel, your trips back to Oklahoma for football games, your cut-rate condo rental from a lobbyist, your extensive use of clean drinking water programs to promote your political advisers, and how one of your closest advisers was paid, despite not showing up for work for three months.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              7. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Tom Udall, (D) New Mexico:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I'm not worried that this Congress will accept drastic cuts to EPA's operating budget or that we are going to cut off support that we send to the states. What I am worried about, administrator Pruitt, is you have been treating your position of public trust as a golden ticket for extravagant travel and fine dining as a platform to cozy up to media personalities, political donors and polluters. I'm worried you are spending all your time enriching yourself and your friends while betraying your mission to protect human health and the environment.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              8. Wide side shot of Pruitt at witness table\u003cbr/\u003e              9. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Pat Leahy, (D) Vermont:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It's troubling enough to your personal fundamental missions seem to be undermining the very mission of the agency you are appointed to lead. But the embarrassments these scandals have brought continues as does a pattern of putting personnel and special interests ahead of the well-being of the American people. Your toxic agenda makes the United States more polluted and less safe has extended beyond environmental policy and has actually affected the confidence of the American people should have in their government.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              10. Wide side shot \u003cbr/\u003e              11. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Pruitt, EPA Administrator:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Some of the areas of criticism are frankly areas where processes at the agency were not properly instituted to prevent certain abuses from happening.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              12. Cutaway of committee members\u003cbr/\u003e              13. SOUNDBITE (English) Scott Pruitt, EPA Administrator:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"So I share your concerns about some of these decisions. I want to rectify those going forward. I also want to highlight for you that some of the criticism is unfounded and I think it exaggerated, and I think it feeds this division that we've seen around very important issues affecting the environment.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              14. Cutaway of committee \u003cbr/\u003e              STORYLINE: \u003cbr/\u003e              Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt faced tough questioning Wednesday from senators about ethics investigations involving his travel spending, security precautions and large raises for young aides.\u003cbr/\u003e              A leading GOP senator expressed concern that the allegations are overshadowing the Trump administration's pro-business regulatory rollbacks.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"I'm being asked, really constantly asked, to comment on security and on housing and on travel. I'm reading about your interactions with representatives of the industries that you regulate\" instead of being asked about EPA policy actions, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who heads a Senate Appropriations subcommittee, told Pruitt at a hearing normally expected to focus on budget matters.\u003cbr/\u003e              New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall, the subcommittee's top Democrat, accused Pruitt of continuing to flout legal requirements to inform lawmakers about that and other big-ticket spending, and \"treating your position of public trust as a golden ticket for extravagant travel and fine dining.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Pruitt in April showed his ability to bat away ethics questions from Democrats when he appeared before two House panels. He responded to lawmakers' challenges by shifting blame for questioned spending onto subordinates and pledging broadly to make changes.\u003cbr/\u003e              There has been no slowdown in damaging headlines for Pruitt since then, including revelations from the EPA's inspector general this week that Pruitt requested and received 24-hour security beginning his first day in office. 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