Well, I guess the point that I would make is the Department has done a first-rate job of implementing this law. It has m...
I was pleased to cosponsor that legislation, and while it did not itself become law, it certainly helped prompt Congress...
I find this counterintuitive at best.
Mr. Chairman, no one is more conscious than I of the risks that our Nation faces through an attack on a chemical facilit...
I believe the Department has developed an effective approach for both identifying high-risk chemical facilities and asse...
there now seems to be general agreement that CFATS is making a positive contribution to our national and homeland securi...
is an effective program for addressing the security risks associated with the Nation's high-risk chemical facilities and...
the notion here being that there is a range of activity that might allow these vulnerable facilities to reduce the risk ...
Personally, I join with the Administration in thinking that exemption leaves a troublesome security gap.
your first priority is to prevent the law from expiring?
it is absolutely critical that this legislation be reauthorized in its current form as a minimal statement of maintainin...
But I want to start my questioning of this panel by noting an issue that is not legitimate, and that is, when the Blue-G...
Mr. Poorman, when people think of the chemical industry, they tend to think of Dow Chemical.
the Administration has done a good job, has been open to suggestions and comments and ideas from the regulated sector.
I do not want our country to lose the edge in the development of alternative energy, particularly offshore wind, because...
I have long believed that we, as a Nation, are not paying sufficient attention to the dangers posed by mercury to our ch...
Last year, to address this need for better data, I and Senator Carper introduced the Comprehensive National Mercury Moni...
My State of Maine has some of the strongest offshore wind resources in the Nation, as well as the scientific and manufac...