ms. mccarthy, for your service. and first, in reaction to some of the chair's comments about these aliases, let me go on winzer, aying richard that sounds pretty marcus, but i vote for tofu. that is more on the market. meat-eater, myself. [laughter] of the aisle side has focused on a lot of transparency concern, and that has been my sole focus in terms of defining those five requests that i gave you when we first met. and again, to make clear, because i think barbara was a little mistake about it, that i did not come up yesterday. we talked about the first opportunity we had to meet, and then we repeated it in writing yesterday in a letter from all of us. i gave you that right thing in substance when we first met many weeks ago. i want to focus in that area because i take it is so important, and again, i am disappointed. the responses we've gotten that are now in the record, in my 1/4ion, addressed about 1 in the five areas. or been responded to any meaningful way. let's start -- that share has the alias email accou

ms. mccarthy comes along, and we do appreciate that. don't feel bad. in regard to instant messaging to the investment of my three daughters, i don't have a clue either as to do that. let me just ask you a few things that think the really important. according to epa, water infrastructure shortfall of over $500 billion over the next two decades, which amounts to about $25 billion annually. amazingly this doesn't even take into account the hundreds of billions of compliance costs, yeah, and fatalities are facing due to the epa's pension sometimes are certainly thomas aggressive? in our that have very little discretion income. the communities are in trouble themselves. the increased costs disproportionately low-income families in economically distressed communities. in response to this a growing number of cities, groups like the u.s. conference of mayors, the national league of cities, national association of clean water agencies have been seeking increase relief to prioritize is and to develop longer compliance schedules to meet the increase and complex r