I would reserve the balance of my time unless my colleague yielded back. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman has the only time remaining.

It is hard to sell a lemon, no matter how much you give in advertising. That is kind of the basis of our opposition to this amendment. Mr. Chair, as you heard me say in the last debate, in my congressional district, people didn't want to…

I don't know my colleague very well, but I think it is instructive to our citizens as a whole that Members come from across this great land and have a lot of different issues. I think it is instructive that even Members of Congress can be…

I believe I have the right to close. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Vermont is recognized.

The chairman of the full committee is correct. We appreciate his help and support in working through these technical corrections. We don't oppose them, and with that, I yield back the balance of my time.

I reserve the balance of my time. Mr. DeSAULNIER. Mr. Chair, I would hope that all the Members would support this amendment. It provides us valuable information by a source that we all value, the National Academy of Medicine, and it will…

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.

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

If you were asked to regulate a chemical that was safe, would you want to do that?

So many questions, so little time.

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.

Let me say that again, because EPA cannot go into a chemical review with a predetermined outcome if it wants to avoid litigation.

I guess I am trying to say that I am a bit frustrated as to why we are having a legislative hearing on banning asbestos before we have had an oversight hearing to demonstrate that the EPA is failing on the technical aspects of the law in…

When I have gone door to door to visit my constituents, I see them in their oxygen machines laboring to live.

We believe that the direct economic impacts would be a total of direct, indirect, and payroll-induced effects of 155,000 jobs, $9.7 billion in payroll, and $63 billion in United States economic output.

Because of the nature of this place, and unlike EPA, we are much less likely to have the time to consider or otherwise be able to know all the impacts a ban would have directly or indirectly on all Americans.

The issue of asbestos use in America and its impact on lung cancer, other illnesses, and death is one of the more challenging and gut-wrenching I have found in my time in Congress.

Preventing asbestos-related diseases is one of the main reasons I and others came together to enact reform to the Toxic Substances Control Act.

This is a tough committee to be on. We are trying to balance public health.

First of all, we really don't need a Paris Agreement to meet substantial changes in the carbon dioxide, or, as my colleague was speaking, she was really referring to the Clean Air Act and the four criteria pollutants that we have so…

This is the perfect example of an amendment that, as we move something forward that might be able to be considered by the Senate and signed by the President, I think we would be very interested in dealing with. Although, I guess I am a…

I reserve the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Illinois has the only time remaining. The time of the gentleman from New York has expired.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from Washington will be postponed. Amendment No. 25 Offered by Mr. Neguse The Acting CHAIR. It…

It is, again, great to be here this morning. I appreciate Speaker Pelosi coming down and talking about bipartisan solutions and working together. Obviously, on this piece of legislation, I think the terminology was demanding a plan for the…