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However, it does require you looking at both sides of the ledger and to have public health benefits actually count for something.

Mr. President, today I pay tribute to a great Rhode Islander, LTC Michael Manning of the Rhode Island National Guard. My office, along with the rest of the Rhode Island congressional delegation, has worked closely with Lieutenant Colonel…

Industry has asked for a free pass in this Administration, and the majority seems happy to oblige.

Over and over again, instead of this Committee looking at both sides of the ledger, we hear only about one side of the ledger.

Ozone causes bad air days in a State like mine located downwind from industry facilities to our west.

The testimony from Senator Burr was intended to focus on vehicles; to quote him, 'used exclusively for racing and used only on the race track.'

Get used to it because, in my view, this EPA is going to regularly work with industry to create artificial delay.

I would like to join Chairman Capito in thanking our witnesses for being here today to discuss four bills that my Republican colleagues argue will aid specific industries stifled by burdensome, costly regulations.

If this is designed to create a back door for street registered vehicles to violate the Clean Air Act, then we are going to have a problem.

For what it is worth, I have information that the EPA has estimated the benefits of this requirement for new residential wood heaters at $3.4 billion to $7.6 billion annually.

These bills seek to delay and defang environmental standards pushing compliance dates for regulations or stripping authority from the Clean Air Act.

The industry could truly litigate this into the indefinite future, for time immemorial.

Their claim is that each bill is a simple fix for a narrowly tailored regulation, but the devil is always in the details.

Mr. President, it has been a sorry spectacle for Americans to witness what the polluting industries are doing, with the full connivance of the Trump administration, to the Environmental Protection Agency--an Agency that enjoys broad…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I want to begin, Mr. Speaker, by responding to the gentleman from Texas, who began this debate by saying how this was a continuation of an ongoing effort by Republicans to promote…

One of the biggest takeaways from the NIH-funded projects, the peer-reviewed studies found, that when a woman gets folic acid in the first month of her pregnancy, the incidence of autism drops by 40 percent.

Mr. Speaker, they are at it again. Corporate lobbyists and billionaires are spending whatever it takes to get their way in this town and avoid paying their fair share in taxes. Meanwhile, working people who play by the rules are getting…

The way the United Nations peacekeeping mission works is like what we were talking about with USAID.