My bipartisan amendment is a common sense approach to protecting both jobs and children's health, and it has to do with the new regulation the EPA has put into effect as of April 22 that requires mandatory training for anyone who is…

Mr. President, the Senator from California has misrepresented what my amendment would do. It does not repeal or change the requirement that EPA has for people to be trained before they remove lead-based paint. But the fact is, the EPA…

I want to thank my colleague and friend from Tennessee for his comments and his support. We have been working on this since we first began discussing it during the appropriations markup, and he has illustrated what truly can be a…

On April 22, the EPA's new lead paint rule went into effect. As I explained to my colleagues yesterday, unfortunately the EPA completely botched the implementation of this important rule. This rule is intended to make sure that lead-based…

I support the purpose of this rule because we want to continue our efforts to rid toxic lead-based paint from our homes. I am deeply concerned, however, as are many of my colleagues, that the EPA has completely botched the implementation…

What is alarming to me is the first report was nearly 2 years ago, and yet we have a subsequent report just last month that indicates the same kinds of problems.

Should there not be more coordination among those three agencies?

Just reorganizing the MMS does not deal with the essential issues of accountability and culture.

I rise today to submit legislation with my colleague from Pennsylvania, Senator Casey, to designate the month of May 2010 as National Brain Tumor Awareness Month. An estimated 612,000 Americans have been diagnosed and are living with a…

I have serious concerns with this provision because it would allow the SEC to self finance and thus avoid the scrutiny and oversight of the appropriations process. Our bipartisan amendment would keep SEC funding as part of the…

But, wait. Supply is ample. Why are prices going up?

It has this Big Brother connotation to it that is very disturbing.

The FTC deals with issues that affect the economic life of all Americans.

I think that's a huge issue. At a time when healthcare costs are spiraling out of sight, and the cost of prescription drugs is a major part of that, the idea that consumers are paying $35 billion more, over the last--or over the next 10…

I am not taking a position on whether or not this merger should be approved, but I am troubled about what happened in this case.

Speaking of the cost of heating oil--home heating oil or gasoline, there was a company in my State that was recently the victim of cybercrime...

I appreciate your holding this hearing on the budget request of the Federal Trade Commission.

The hospitals reported providing an additional 2,000 pages of documents required by the FTC.

If not for the extraordinary leadership of Chairman Joe Lieberman and the key support from Ranking Member Susan Collins for the amendment to stop the IIO privatization study, I would not be here today

The FTC protects consumers from deceptive practices, such as fraudulent and predatory scams, identity theft, and credit fraud.

Now, BP did file a Regional Response Plan for the Gulf of Mexico, and in that plan, the worst-case scenario that you present for offshore drilling is when a highest capacity well experiences an uncontrolled blowout volume of 250,000…

I think there was an Area Response Plan for an oil-related incident just in March off the coast of Maine.

The relief well has been held out as the ultimate solution if everything else fails.

Let us also remember what a personal tragedy this incident is for the families of the 11 workers who lost their lives.

But the U.S. Government has a responsibility for protecting the public safety that is more important.