Political Quotes

“I would be happy to stipulate they took too long. Since the Trump administration has taken over, in 34 months, they have not held one hearing in terms of stakeholder input. Yes, they scheduled two small business reg review hearings, canceled both, and they have not rescheduled. So, 34 months into this administration, there is nothing happening. This bill, fundamentally, is about Congress, as it did with bloodborne pathogens, which addressed a crisis in hospitals back in the 1990s and early 2000s--which a Republican Congress, by the way, supported--put a deadline on OSHA to get a rule in place. We are a safer country because Congress took that action. That is what this bill does. It is 42 months, by the way, in terms of the deadline for the rule and it is 1 year for the interim rule. We accommodated Republican objections in the committee, made sure everybody gets a comment period on the interim rule, and we also carved out doctors offices, dentists offices, anybody who is not part of the healthcare facility. We shrunk the scope of this bill to healthcare facilities 200,000, which is going to reduce the mandate. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has again expired. Mr. DeSAULNIER. Madam Speaker, I yield an additional 1 minute to the gentleman from Connecticut.”