What we're doing here is we are not letting people get away with saying, 'No.'
I am not looking for your political judgment. I need your technical judgment.
We have to be very careful what we do here to make sure that there is true enforcement.
We should not in any way downplay the role the States play here.
Reform is needed. But that reform must be built on a platform of meaningful protections for the public.
It does make them do a separate analysis for every type of product that contains that chemical.
The laboratories of democracy, as Justice Brandeis called the States, have been out in front of Congress.
It essentially puts the States out of business of protecting their people from poison.
If a chemical is dangerous, we should be acting as quickly as we can to protect our people.
If it takes 12 years to finish work on the first 25 chemicals, do you agree that given the Udall-Vitter bill's pace and ...
So the chemical industry could pick those chemicals that would not be in fact subject to jurisdiction by the States.