Political Quotes

“So let's find the ones that we can agree upon and move into law. We worked diligently, and it was mentioned before--so the debate is also going to come and say, Republicans hate people, we hate health. Nothing is going to be done. We have to save the Republic, right? Not true. Even though I am an authorizer, as I said in the Rules Committee, we don't like when other committees usurp our authorization, right, chairman? And we don't like when appropriators do it. But they did it right at the end of the year. In the National Defense Authorization Act, it requires EPA to mandate that drinking water systems monitor unregulated PFAS. Click that off. We did it. Provide grants to communities to address this issue. Checkmark. We did that. Requires new reporting of PFAS under the Toxic Release Inventory Program. We did that. Requires manufacturers and processors of PFAS to submit health and safety information to the EPA. Another checkmark. Guidance for appropriate destruction of PFAS, restriction of long chain. Let me say something that is really problematic about this bill. It bans all new uses of PFAS chemicals. We know science creates healthier environments. So if we are able to create a PFAS system that may not be a major concern, we can't bring it to market because this bill bans it. Remember, we are talking about 7,800 formulations. It was also mentioned by my colleague that, in the omnibus bill, 20 million more dollars to go to communities to address this problem.…”