Calvin Dooley: “This draft greatly strengthens the EPA's ability to demand more data by allowing EPA the demand further testing for…”

Mr. Speaker, the motion that I am offering today is one which is advancing and continuing the policy of economic engagement that this country has embraced. It is a policy to ensure that we can provide economic opportunities for all sectors…

Let me give the gentleman a real, live example, if I could respond, with an independent expenditure that was issue advocacy on the Coalition for our Children's Future. They have a board of directors that was in place, and had an executive…

So the answer then is yes, it is a special interest. The gentleman is receiving money, gobs of it, from special interests and he honestly sits here and pretends that does not happen.

This draft provides for a robust national chemical regulatory program, while also maintaining abilities of States to protect their citizens when EPA has not acted.