Isn't that the purpose of environmental regulation, is to assure that a chemical is safe for its intended use?

How well did that work out with tobacco? How well did that work out with lead?

Congress should reform TSCA; there is an emerging consensus that reform is necessary.

I would rather solve that problem with protections at the border to make sure that harmful products are not imported to our country.

I assumed that there was, I don't know, some mistake here.

So to put a limiter on that sentence, we do not think that EPA should be burdened with the determination that each chemical is safe for its intended use.

The time to modernize TSCA has come.

Madam President, I ask unanimous consent to lay aside the pending amendment and call up amendment No. 3354, and at the conclusion of my remarks that amendment No. 3354 be withdrawn. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there objection? Without…

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I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 4247, the Keeping All Students Safe Act. As a cosponsor, I am certainly pleased that for the first time this bipartisan legislation will protect all children in…

Senators Tom Udall of New Mexico and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island met with the delegation

I agree with you in the sense that initially there might be some significance of overseas products, but eventually I think that we can find capable American vendors.

As you know--and we have had a chance to talk about the aspects of this--my State, Rhode Island, is deeply committed to wind power, offshore wind power, not only for environmental reasons, but also for economic reasons.

There is an opportunity again in Rhode Island to have the fabrication right there, not just for Rhode Island, but for the entire east coast.

So if the United States puts in fiscal policies that allow a market to flourish, the manufacturing will naturally migrate to the United States.

I think part of it is because of what we have talked about previously, this sense that it is difficult to coordinate with MMS.

I think, again, in this process of trying to rationalize what is being done, credit for recognition of the scientific basis of these proposals should be much greater.