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On the recordMarch 17, 2015
I yield myself an additional 2 minutes just to speak briefly on the substance of H.R. 1030, the Secret Science Reform Act. This is a bill that requires the Environmental Protection Agency to base its regulations on science, not only on science, but science that is available to the public and subject to independent verification. Who could be against that? That is part of the scientific process. That is part of scientific inquiry. You balance things, propose a theory; someone proposes an alternate; you get the data, collect the evidence, do the studies, do the experiments, make that generally available, and come to a conclusion. This is a transparency bill. The administration ran on the concept of transparency. We are simply trying to help them fulfill that obligation. I reserve the balance of my time.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

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