Tim Scott

The price will be impacted by the actual cost. And when we look at the actual costs of the health care bill, it is actually going to have a major impact on every single taxpaying American in the country.

Having served on a couple of hospital boards, I have realized that the reimbursement rates are going down because of the ACA, not up.

I do not see the ACA from a partisan perspective. I see it as a perspective of an average person in our country.

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 nation estimated on an annual basis.

Yes, I do. Validity is important, yes.

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.

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.

I think they can give us the information that they have available to us.

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 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.

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.

Progress has been made in all areas of chemical security, but there is still, obviously, work to be done.

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 chemicals as a weapon.

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.

The significant policy shift represented by OSHA's February 21, 2013 Letter of Interpretation regarding the accompaniment of OSHA inspectors by third parties on walk-around inspections is of great concern for a number of reasons.

If we want to create an environment for the largest number of new jobs in America... we need to be very careful and circumspect about any new cost or mandate.

We need to be careful in the changing world that we have where businesses aren't like businesses were 40 or 50 years ago.

We have to be very careful about decisions we make here, because we're talking about tens of millions of individuals.

I think if we are going to put an effort in to combine some things, it certainly shouldn't be with DHS and EPA.

EPA is very strong on environmental protection and not as strong in site security, physical security, transportation security.

It is a very burdensome process.

EPA does a very good job in that respect. They do not have a lot of expertise in site-security types of programs.

No, there is absolutely no reason. In fact, most facilities are going to communicate with their local Joint Terrorism Task Force and the FBI and the local law enforcement.

We are going to have them--if they don't tell us, we still have a potential terrorist working in our plant, and that is absolutely crazy.

Yes, sir. They seem to be gathering information and holding information within DHS instead of sharing in a partnership, as we started out.