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?

It will authorized Federal agencies to form partnerships with States and academic institutions to investigate and help address disease clusters.

This doesn't add one dollar, so don't make like it does.

I am hopeful that you will accept this by voice vote.

I believe if these amendments had passed this would be on the way to being one heck of a bill.

If you don't feel emotional when faced with a widow, there is something wrong with you. I urge a no vote.

The preemption question is still not fixed. We had a chance to vote on the Shimkus preemption which would have stopped the Federal Government from preempting the State until the EPA actually banned a chemical, and it was voted down by the…

Let me say, Senators, the fact of the matter is that the original bill that we had hearings on is gone, it is away, it is dead and gone.

This is insane. It is just a joke. And it costs a billion dollars.

This amendment is identical to legislation I previously introduced with Senator Crapo, who is also a co-sponsor of this amendment, to help communities determine whether there is a connection between clusters of cancer, birth defects and…

If we can add a section that addresses asbestos that is killing people, 10,000 a year, if we can add a section that says, without any further costs, we can look at these cancer clusters, if we can add a section that says, we need deadlines…

I wish to recognize the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide. Between 1915 and 1923, the Ottoman Empire carried out genocide against the Armenian people. Over the course of 8 years, more than 1.5 million Armenians were marched to…