EPA's final rule published online in December set Federal floor standards for the safe disposal of coal ash for the first time, and the rule has been decades in the making.

The big problem for everyday people in Vermont is their financial information.

submitted comment on behalf of David Sanchez, Vice President, Northern New Mexico Stockmen's Association.

There is a desire to get things done that are going to add protection, rather than take it away.

Data breaches are a plague on consumers, businesses, and our economy as a whole.

I take offense when people say that it is stupidity.

If we want to help you and the $60 million banks and the billion-dollar banks and the banks under $10 billion and we legislate such that we cover $50 billion banks, why don't we just repeal Dodd-Frank?

I do not want them like in China.

Even if it means saving one life.

The Massachusetts Attorney General, Maura Healy, recently sent me a letter describing the way State authority to set strong chemical safety standards and enforce existing laws is preempted in the Udall-Vitter bill.

So the chemical industry could pick those chemicals that would not be in fact subject to jurisdiction by the States.

If it takes 12 years to finish work on the first 25 chemicals, do you agree that given the Udall-Vitter bill's pace and today's methods for assessing chemical risks, it will take more than 100 years to finish studying the 1,000 chemicals…

If a chemical is dangerous, we should be acting as quickly as we can to protect our people.

I am not looking for your political judgment. I need your technical judgment.

I think it would be ill-advised for the Congress to move in and try to be the agency of expertise.

The FCC made the right decision. You're the agency of expertise.

We have to be very careful what we do here to make sure that there is true enforcement.

The Udall-Vitter bill allows, allows the chemical industry pay extra money, pay extra money for EPA to classify a chemical as high priority.