John Shimkus actually said...

"I will not object. I want to--hopefully we are going to be careful on receiving testimony from people we didn't ask to testify."

"I think we have got to be very careful as with the hearing we last week of by legislative fiat banning things which we may or may not know are harmful."

"I appreciate that we are meeting to learn more about the bills introduced in this Congress to tackle various forms of contamination linked to highly fluorinated chemicals known as PFAS."

"This is not a no on these bills, and this is not a delay tactic. This is, just give me a little more time appeal."