John Shimkus

I just would encourage my colleagues that if we want to have an opportunity to really move a bill, we are going to have to come together and be positive and just tweak the language and work this through.

I mean, you just can't weigh in. You are not making those cost-benefit analyses.

So they should move. Is that the answer? Get out of that 70-parts-per-billion area because it is not healthy.

We are changing the rules on the fly, and the people who are creating jobs in this country cannot manage it.

I was here when we passed the healthcare law. All we passed was the Senate version of a bill.

This is the perfect example of a nanny state, of a national government telling individual citizens and saying what is best for them.

I don't think I have ever in my life read a menu label. I don't think I have ever looked for calorie numbers on anything I have consumed.

We have great concerns about the change in base load generation based upon the focus of this administration on continuing to ratchet-down emission standards

The House of Representatives has repeatedly supported Yucca Mountain in an overwhelming and bipartisan manner.

The issue of the nation's nuclear waste management policy is not a partisan issue.

Just saying no is not an option.

Thank you very much.

There is a definite shift.

But we will lose the authority, or the oversight that we have today.

I am happy to do so, and let me raise a couple issues.

Right, but, remember, GAO is already doing a report now too.

Great. I think that is all I have, so with that--and Mr. Igrejas, we look forward to continuing to work with you because obviously we are moving forward.

The discussion draft permits a manufacturer to request EPA to conduct a risk evaluation of a chemical substance.

The existing standard of unreasonable risk has been interpreted by courts to be a risk-benefit balancing

Our intent is just to get the job done

The intent of the legislation is to be, as was stated in some of the opening statements, a more slimmed-down, more efficient, more simplistic process of getting from A to B to C to judgment ruling

Let's continue the bipartisan momentum and get this legislation through the committee and the full House. This is the year for meaningful reform.

I believe that is an important step here in this House.

Members have been working together directly, challenging each other to find common ground, and discovering that we share many policy objectives.

It's gratifying to work directly with Members on both sides of the aisle who bring so much dedication to the task.