We also need to keep our eye on the larger ball of preparedness around the Nation.
Mark Pryor
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Mark Pryor is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Arkansas from 2003 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he focused on issues such as healthcare, education, and infrastructure during his tenure. Pryor was known for his moderate stance and worked across party lines on various legislative initiatives. He was re-elected in 2008 but lost his bid for a third term in 2014, marking the end of his Senate career.
This area is absolutely critical to keeping things going around the country and around the world as we need them to.
Do you feel like the D.C. area has sufficient capacity in an emergency to keep all the lines of communication open or are we going to continue to see sort of a clogged telecom capacity here?
If we have a terrorist attack, if we have any kind of contamination, leaving the building exposes them to much higher levels of contamination and of unsafe situations than staying in place.
I would like to start today by recognizing that today's hearing coincides with the 70th anniversary of the surprise attacks on Pearl Harbor.
Are people making plans? And if there is something going on, whether it is an earthquake or a snowstorm or whatever it happens to be and maybe the communication is not real clear in the beginning and everybody is unsure about really what…
Thank you again for inviting Mr. Neal Cohen, Small Business Ombudsman, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), to provide testimony...
The Chinese government... wants to proceed in international commerce; yet they seem to be unwilling to step up and be financially responsible for faulty product.
This committee should work to restore the credit of families who, through no fault of their own, have lost their homes due to this toxic product be it via short sale, bankruptcy or foreclosure.
I want to give a special thanks to Senator Warner, because he has been the primary driver in getting this hearing scheduled today.
I can't think of a more frustrating example of families through no fault of their own being kind of ping-ponged from one governmental entity to another.
China should take responsibility for the products that they allow to be sold in this country and other countries.
Chinese corporations should have to register in this country, just like domestic corporations.
I can't think of a more frustrating issue that I've been involved with than this issue of drywall.
Our money should not be going overseas, but staying here and helping to put our country back together.
I think the Subcommittee, as well as the full Committee, would be interested to know what the Chinese government and Chinese companies response is...
This is a good bipartisan bill, and we hope that we can move this relatively quickly through the Senate, if possible.





