James Comer

Workers and entrepreneurs shouldn't be held back by burdensome regulations, excessive red tape, and overzealous enforcement actions.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and Under Secretary Northey, it is great to have you back to the Committee.

I don't want a product that creates absolutely no risk for the farmers which would encourage over-production.

It is clear from the testimony heard here today that the Trump Administration, including the EEOC and OFCCP, continues to combat discrimination in the workplace.

I applaud the EEOC's recognition that the current employer pay data collection is a burdensome and costly mandate on job creators and a threat to the privacy of American workers.

I am encouraged by OFCCP's proposed rule to protect the religious freedom of Federal contractors and I hope the final rule will be finalized swiftly.

No one should ever be denied an opportunity because of unlawful discrimination.

We don't want a product that is ripe for fraud.

Workers and entrepreneurs should not be held back by burdensome regulations, excessive red tape, and overzealous enforcement actions.

The Trump administration argued this mandate was 'unnecessarily burdensome' and 'lacked practical utility.'

It is great to have you back to the Committee. You are doing a tremendous job at USDA.

I hope everyone watching here today will go and read more about this issue, learn more about the extent of what has been happening over the past several decades, because what these companies have done is deeply immoral and shameful, and…

I'm a compassionate capitalist. I don't think for one second that I won't hold these companies accountable when they screw up.

I think that, you know, the role should be to figure out how can we ensure that every American is protected from this and that we have clean drinking water.

I think it would be good for everyone to know how 3M got into the PFAS business to begin with.

I'm very passionate about having clean drinking water. And I think that, you know, the role should be to figure out how can we ensure that every American is protected from this and that we have clean drinking water.

As I've said at each of our hearings, potential drinking water contamination is frightening for any community.

I hope this subcommittee will refocus its efforts on providing oversight of government.

No one wants kids to use tobacco. No one wants kids vaping.

the silver bullet isn't the toxicity. The silver bullet is the fact that it is in your blood.

I would rather the tobacco be grown in Kentucky by middle class farmers, small farmers, which is who grow tobacco, than importing tobacco from other countries.

I am certainly opposed to youth vaping. I am opposed to youth smoking.

I know that Senator McConnell has a bill that I support to raise the minimum age to purchase cigarettes.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The topic of the committee hearing today is youth's use of electronic cigarettes, and it has been mentioned today the potential possible correlation with tobacco and cigarettes.

May I inquire how much time is remaining for each side. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Kentucky has 18\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Maryland has 7 minutes remaining.