Our job is to craft a bill that reflects the best of all of us.

We have participated in five hearings at which we have dug into TSCA, learning the issues section by section.

We think that chemical manufacturers should be in a position to cooperate with EPA on its close scrutiny of their products.

We need to be sure that EPA has the information it needs to decide on the safety of a chemical.

We also agree that EPA should have the authority to impose requirements and restrictions on chemicals that pose risks.

Our staffs have sat down on a bipartisan basis for many hours to discuss the language before us in the Chemicals in Commerce Act.

The Telecomm rewrite is not for sissies.

The telecom rewrite, that's not for sissies.

Even those who will despise the legislation, we want them to despise it with a smile that we made a good effort.

I would like to call the hearing to order and welcome our guests.

This bill will help create manufacturing jobs in not only those plants that manufacture chemicals, but also in plants that use them to make cars, computer chips, and thousands of other goods.

Last week I came down to the floor to ask the community of world democracies to provide immediate financial help to the country of Ukraine. I would like to report that the United States has committed a billion dollars, and the European…

it is challenging because it is going broke and my colleagues on the other side will not accept that premise.

I first want to recognize Annie Lowrey and Michael Gordon--they are reporters from The New York Times--because I will summarize their article and plagiarize other portions of it in talking about Ukraine. The world watched in wonder…

if you are fair to the beneficiaries then you are being fair to the community pharmacists

More than 250 organizations united for a common goal, protecting seniors and individuals with disabilities from harmful changes to Medicare Part D.

As Rob departs the Chamber, let me thank him for his service and for his family's service. As, obviously, the first Republican Member to be able to respond to your comments, let me say what most of us always know, that although many of us…

I think if we can agree on what is out there, allow EPA to do a tiered, targeted, risk-based approach, we can all get to the end goal here.

A lot of you all here will help us muddle through that process, and point out the good, and the bad, the ugly, and maybe, working with my colleagues, we could find areas of compromise.

We need to push beyond re-litigating those cases and focus on what authorities EPA has now or could reasonably use in the future to produce tailored, necessary and high-quality test data and other information to carry out TSCA.

Let's not kid ourselves, though; information collection and analysis on thousands of chemicals will become time-consuming and expensive.

We are not going to let Trudi get off that easy because she is going to have to listen to some 1-minute speeches. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the farm bill conference report. As Illinois farmers look forward to spring planting…

I think it would be safe to say that no one envisioned this world in which we live in technologically, no one envisioned in '96.

I thank my colleague, my friend from Pennsylvania, for calling attention to this concern that you raised. In our open, deliberative process which we had in the markup, this was added as an amendment to the bill by my friends on the other…

Well, it is great to be here on the floor with my friends as we talk about moving pieces of legislation. It is unfortunate that we are no longer a debating society; we are just a statement society, whether we are going back to what is true…