I think it is a constitutional issue as well. And I think it means a lot when people of your stature tell us that it matters to the men and women that we have put in harm's way to do difficult things for us.

Until we actually get the numbers where we can appropriate, things don't happen.

Some of us up here have been concerned for a long time about the lack of a new Authorization for Use of Force.

That is interesting to be able to note.

there is an incentive to only publish data that are positive

If we had cuts of the magnitude that I asked you about in the opening round, I can just assure you that we would be talking about reducing centers.

TSCA was so well-received it was voice-voted here in the Senate, as putting in statute, for the first time, something that has been in executive action for a long time.

the cleanest approach is to adopt the one that the Congressional drafters had

the grant funding should be, at the beginning of it they do the study, not at the end of it

How do we hit a balance on that, because this is not theory anymore?

Having visited 2 of the 3 facilities actually before they were closed down on trips for the Interior Committee, you know, just finding places for professionals to live.

There was a bill that Senators Lankford and Heitkamp introduced last year that would have required agencies, when writing a new regulation, to plan for how they would review it, 5 or 10 years down the road.

We need to know--and I think the oversight portion of this feeds into what you just mentioned...

I think the independence of peer review is critical, where you are actually getting the peer reviewers, and the breadth of that peer review.

I actually thank the gentlelady. As always, she asks good questions and has good points to make.

Agency rulemaking must be informed by independent science advice that is free from political pressure.

The TSCA language on the science section, do any of the three of you have an issue with that, how it was written for that area, as much as you know the language?

the weight of evidence is more than just tallying up the number of studies