I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection…

I ask unanimous consent that the bill be considered read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The bill (H.R. 1362) was…

I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The resolution (S…

I could not disagree more, but even in emergency situations, where we have seen agencies step in and say, 'This is so vitally important. We need to engage right now for public safety and health,' there are mistakes even in that, and we…

There was a bill that Senators Lankford and Heitkamp introduced last year that would have required agencies, when writing a new regulation, to plan for how they would review it, 5 or 10 years down the road.

How does that work in the science, and I am still thinking about the legislative side of this.

the grant funding should be, at the beginning of it they do the study, not at the end of it

I think the independence of peer review is critical, where you are actually getting the peer reviewers, and the breadth of that peer review.

You have worked with us before, at OIRA, and you are familiar with the process. What would that look like, as far as an executive action or a codification or--how would you consider something like that fitting into how we do our government?

How do we hit a balance on that, because this is not theory anymore?

there is an incentive to only publish data that are positive

You will be glad to know that Oklahoma has more fresh water shoreline than any other State in the union.

I would encourage dialogue with us. We have a bill dealing with sound science, and it is not a partisan bill.

You have to wait for that same fish to swim by again, in the same spot.

That is interesting to be able to note.

The TSCA language on the science section, do any of the three of you have an issue with that, how it was written for that area, as much as you know the language?

TSCA was so well-received it was voice-voted here in the Senate, as putting in statute, for the first time, something that has been in executive action for a long time.

the cleanest approach is to adopt the one that the Congressional drafters had

We need to know--and I think the oversight portion of this feeds into what you just mentioned...

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Sullivan). Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Massachusetts. Nomination of Seema Verma and the Republican Healthcare Bill

the weight of evidence is more than just tallying up the number of studies

Agency rulemaking must be informed by independent science advice that is free from political pressure.

in December of 2015, President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act after it passed this body with overwhelming bipartisan support--85 of 100 Senators supported the bill. The Wall Street Journal called the Every Student Succeeds Act…

DHS has spent 13 years trying to be able to pull together their HR system.

Thank you for being here. I appreciated our conversation in my office to be able to talk through a lot of these issues before.