"Having served on a couple of hospital boards, I have realized that the reimbursement rates are going down because of the ACA, not up."
"The deepening of the Charleston Harbor to 50 feet is predicted to provide significant economic benefit to the Southeast region and the entire nation, with over $100 million in net benefit to the natio..."
"The chemical industry and Department of Homeland Security have a common goal: to improve the security profile of the chemical sector and reduce the risk of attack against industry or the use of chemic..."
"Progress has been made in all areas of chemical security, but there is still, obviously, work to be done."
"ACC will continue to partner with DHS to achieve success and we need the certainty of a multiyear extension of DHS authority for a sustainable program."
"I would say yes. Looking at the variability in the sites that we have that are covered, there is a lot of question on how we got where we got."
"I agree. The inefficiency in the process caused a lot of unnecessary work, a lot of information that they have never used, and we don't know where the information went."
"All of the information was submitted. I absolutely think it should be more transparent with the people that we were supposed to be working as partners."
"I think they can give us the information that they have available to us."
"Threat typically is not discussed, and when you have a meeting with DHS, typically, it starts with there are no credible threats to the chemical industry at this time."
"You have to identify the baseline on the threats that you are going to address, and then you have to have plans in place to escalate your security programs accordingly as the risk increases."
"Yes, I do. Validity is important, yes."