I appreciate the effort that NRDC has put into this for many years.
I welcome the Administration officials, with a particularly warm welcome to our former colleague, Secretary Salazar.
I think it would serve us well to move with dispatch, but thoughtfully, on this legislation.
This is irresponsible and too much of a pay off to industry.
I think that there is a very strong and responsible business voice that has emerged.
I think we are at kind of a danger point in that if anybody adds anything over here, the whole enterprise begins to lose credibility.
We do have to face those challenges, and our colleagues bring those points of view and they have to be addressed.
We need to think of a way to be fair to communities like Rhode Island which took the hard step of getting off coal early on.
Fundamentally, what we are about here is to make sure that people cannot externalize internal costs of pollution and harm to others.
Thank you very much, Chairman Gensler.
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the non-availability of force enablers has become SOCOM's 'most vexing issue in the operational environment.'
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I understand your proposal does include registration of advisors to hedge funds, which is legislation that I proposed and I think it is on t...
Very briefly, let me first express my view that the release of the OLC opinions was proper, was necessary, and was wise.
It is incredible to me that it has taken 50 years since the Surgeon General made this a priority.
You will be in charge of that for the Veterans Administration, is that the way the concept is?
This is something we've got to do, and I want to work with you and I'm sure all my colleagues do.
