I think you are a great example that you can do well and do good at the same time, and protect consumers.

I think there is an assumption by consumers on all kinds of products, including cosmetics, that someone somewhere, that the government is protecting them, and so far from true.

So I wanted to also quote, and I think you were just repeating that earlier, that you testified that, quote, 'Cosmetics firms, are responsible for the safety of their products and ingredients,' and, quote, 'In our experience, most firms…

It is time to act. It is the legislation that has a name that is regulated and yet it is not regulated, and we need to move aggressively right now to protect.

I have introduced this bill since 2010, so we have tried to get this conversation going.

We need to work with you to come up with legislation that actually does fulfill the expectations of consumers.

I want to say how grateful I am to Beautycounter for endorsing my Safe Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Act, H.R. 4296.

Are you aware--I was trying to get at, and I didn't do it very well--that in 2018 there was a study by the Breast Cancer Prevention Partners and found that the most toxic product it tested was a shampoo called Just for Me that is marketed…

I thank Mr. Courtney for yielding, and I proudly rise today in support of his legislation. The frequency and scale of workplace violence are alarmingly high, but no statistic, even the startling ones that we have learned about, can fully…

Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea'' on rollcall No. 633. ____________________

The issue of environmental justice is so very, very important.

So it is not just stopping the harm. It is improving the communities.

Is there anyone on this panel who thinks that the Environmental Protection Agency is doing the job that it was supposed to do?

The Environmental Protection Agency's mission to protect humans, and the environmental health has really been eroded every day by this administration.

I think it is, perhaps, the greatest challenge facing the 21st century.

Would you agree that the economic and social cost of not addressing climate change is far greater than any risk to incurring additional debt?

I was heartened by the Fed's recent announcement that it will finally create its own real-time payment system which will help low-income families save billions of dollars each year in overdraft fees and exploitive check cashing and payday…

a higher minimum wage, I am talking about us, would raise the income of low-income families who are more likely to spend whatever they earn.

I think what you heard from Mr. Reed and myself, and those people who have experienced the use of hospice care, what a great and wonderful blessing it can be to our families. Mr. Speaker, I support the legislation, and I reserve the…

I think you could hear from the factual and the heartfelt testimony you have heard about this bill that will make hospice and palliative care more available that we all here urge passage of this legislation. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the…

I will close with this: I thank all the Members who worked together to produce this great legislation, especially my colleague, Congressman Michael Burgess, who has been a champion of these issues and introduced the bill along with me and…

I am sure that all of my colleagues here would agree that their lives have been enriched by their own travels.

Doing so strengthened the FTC in four ways.

Brand USA was authorized to work directly with the United States tourism and travel industry to maximize the social and economic benefits of travel.

I am also pleased that we are reauthorizing the U.S. SAFE WEB Act.