We all know it would be 100 to nothing if you asked 100 people.

The old bill had, as Senator Whitehouse called it, a death zone.

Let the States do what they do best, which is protect their people until the EPA has completed their work on a chemical.

It will strengthen Federal agency coordination and accountability when investigating potential disease clusters.

If you wanted to take action on asbestos, and as Senator Markey said, this has been an issue since a quarter of a century ago, you put it in the bill.

Let's prove that we mean it when we say States' rights, and support Senator Gillibrand.

Asbestos, a lethal substance, is still legal in the U.S., even though it has been banned in most developed nations.

We are using existing resources. Now, the last, my memory tells me, and my staff says my memory is correct, we voted this bill out of this committee without a problem.

I particularly thank the groups out there, the public health organizations, who were so strong that it forced the negotiations into a much better place than a lot of us thought they would go.

This idea that you can't mention a chemical and you shouldn't have deadlines, that is coming, in my opinion, straight from the hearts and minds of chemical companies.

This amendment will protect contamination of drinking water supplies from chemical spills, such as the Freedom Industry spill in West Virginia.

This is simply saying that if the National Academy of Sciences has found that chemicals are particularly harmful and dangerous, why do we need to just reinvent the wheel?