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Article snippet: The unending controversies surrounding Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head MORE are exhausting Republican lawmakers, who are calling on the administrator to get a handle on the scandals. While many GOP lawmakers have maintained public support for MORE’s embattled EPA chief, a number of Republicans in the House and Senate are letting their criticisms ring out. “These other things are an enormous distraction from the important work the agency needs to do, and at some point [the EPA has] got to get its house in order.” Rep. MORE (R-Ill.), who chairs the Energy and Commerce Environment Subcommittee, said “questionable” decisions by Pruitt are distracting from the administration’s messaging on taxes and deregulation. “You can’t get that through with all of those other stories,” Shimkus said. “It’s frustrating … I’d rather be talking about jobs and the economy than these personal decisions that have been made that are questionable.” Pruitt faced fresh scrutiny this week amid reports that he used his position to try to get his wife a Chick-fil-A franchise and had an aide do personal tasks for him, such as trying to buy him a used mattress from the Trump International Hotel and spending months researching apartments for him. The aide, Millan Hupp, resigned Wednesday after those reports. Sarah Greenwalt, another close aide to Pruitt who came with him to the EPA from Oklahoma, also resigned. The latest controversies follow months of scandals surrounding Pruitt, inc... Link to the full article to read more