I am old enough to remember that incident. And it seems to me that this was not EPA's mine. As I recall, there was a deadbeat mine owner, a problem we have faced throughout the country with abandoned mines and deadbeat mine owners.

This has created an embarrassment to your department and a crisis of legitimacy with respect to every rule and regulation it churns out.

We commend the USDA for proposing a strong rule and urge you to prioritize the finalization and publication of the rule.

If we don't take this issue seriously, we are going to have chaos in the marketplace because there is nothing preventing any state from doing what California did.

The second phase is really where the rubber is going to hit the road, though, because it is going to be dealing with those subsidies that are contributing to overcapacity and overfishing very directly.

This loophole can easily be abused.

My bill, however, simply requires that actions taken by the Federal Government to regulate energy... take energy poverty into account.

We are writing to express our strong support for the above-referenced rule proposed on August 21, 2023, and urge the USDA to act expeditiously to finalize it.

Are you following the law?

In some categories, there are entire departments, like the nutrition department at the FDA that are – that have to go, that are not doing their job, they're not protecting our kids.

We have a hobbled economy because of a regulatory front that runs counter to the rule of law.

We could set guardrails, Mr. Sherman, on--in addition to time limits on privacy settings.

Thank you to our expert witnesses for being with us today to share your insight on the excesses of the data broker industry.

We would require all data brokers to register, essentially, so that we would--everyone would have access to a list.

We have the ability in the law to put some guardrails, to adopt some guardrails.

And our legislation also finally shines light on the shadow world of data brokers by requiring them to register with the FTC.

The Hospital Price Transparency Final Rule is a step in the right direction to improve transparency in healthcare prices.

I think that is something that hasn't been fully explored by the FAA.