"Thank you, Madam Chair and Ranking Member Burgess, for convening this hearing and including important public health legislation, including my bill, the Keep Food Containers Safe from PFAS Act."
"In my bill, the Keep Food Containers Safe from PFAS Act is one of the bills that we are considering or having hearings on today."
"With the passage of the--with the PFAS Action Act earlier this month, the committee has taken big strides needed to kickstart the cleanup of legacy PFAS contamination."
"We do think that Congress needs to step in because FDA hasn't appreciated the urgency of this issue."
"No one knows better than Michigan how urgent this problem is and how overburdened many communities already are."
"Flint water taught us something. As other states start to test, they are going to be as bad as Michigan."
"Which is why we need the bill. And it is in the blood, for everybody here, of 99 percent of the people in this country and they don't know it."
"I think there is bipartisan frustration on this issue."
"I have never smoked marijuana, and don't think I ever will smoke marijuana."
"I am pretty passionate about it now."
"We have just started it, it has gone recreational marijuana the last couple of weeks."
"This lack of knowledge poses a public health risk."