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 ...
Preventing asbestos-related diseases is one of the main reasons I and others came together to enact reform to the Toxic Substances Control A...
This is a tough committee to be on. We are trying to balance public health.
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-wrench...
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 a...
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 ...
Let me say that again, because EPA cannot go into a chemical review with a predetermined outcome if it wants to avoid litigation.
Chairman Pallone was most angry about the donut hole provisions which we placed in there for budgetary--to make the numbers work.
We wrestled with how to get Medicare. In fact, a lot of conservative Republicans got beat up quite a bit on this because we expanded in esse...
Speaker Pelosi often says, 'show me your budget, show me your values,' and I think that's true.