Gary Peters

I appreciate you brought up that criteria, and that was actually a question that I was going to ask related to criteria for PFOA and PFAS.

Let us get the tourniquets on so we can stop the PFAS, the uncontrolled release of PFAS from our installations.

I think I speak for everybody who lives around that area, that this is simply unacceptable to have that kind of time line.

There is no question. I think it is important to remind everyone that the health advisory levels show that there is no safe amount of exposure.

The people in our communities deserve the attention of the full force of the Federal Government.

I do not like general messer-uppers. So clearly we have to deal with this.

Be most assured what I have learned here today will go back to Washington D.C.

We need to step up and make sure that we continue to move forward.

The Federal Government. If you created large research opportunities, center hubs, that coordinated well...

And not just stay on it, but accelerate it.

Clearly, we have to have a national drinking water standard.

For the information of the Senate, there will be two rollcall votes in relation to the CHIPS and Science legislation at approximately 11:30 a.m. and a cloture vote at approximately 4:30 p.m. in relation to the PACT Act. ____________________

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 7:03 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, July 27, 2022, at 10 a.m.

For years, I have been urging the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to add a specific Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) designation to ensure this community is accurately counted.

We need to make sure we do this right. Let's not cut this short.

As Chair of this Committee, which has jurisdiction over the Census Bureau, I have led oversight throughout the count, fought against political interference, and consistently pushed the Bureau to improve its efforts to count all…

I have certainly been fighting for a long time to have a separate category for people of Middle Eastern and North African descent, which we call the MENA category.

I would argue that part of the problem was the fact that the Republican Congress in place from 2012 to 2016 under-invested in the Census.

Absolutely, Mayor. There is no question we have to get this right.

This is a Trump administration policy?

This is a big problem, among many other problems associated with this.

We want to make sure that every community has equal access to those FEMA resources in an equitable way, not based on income.

I appreciate you moving that timeline up.

As we just saw from a damaging tornado in my home State of Michigan, these natural disasters have only continued to worsen due to climate change.

Ensuring there are enough resources to help these synagogues, Jewish Community Centers (JCC), other faith-based organizations has been a priority for us here in this Committee.