David McKinley: “I come before you today as an advocate for thousands of my constituents in Ohio's 9th congressional district who are…”

Unfortunately, instead of promoting innovation and supporting the chemical industry, as the Act intended, it seems like EPA is stifling innovation and creating barriers to commerce for new and existing materials.

But now it is five years later, and this committee, I think, apparently now, we are looking to see how it has been implemented.

But it appears to me the policies that have been put forth in the last ten months are doing diametrically opposite.

If I could recover my--that--we are not hearing the same. They are not--the people that I am talking to throughout West Virginia and places are not concurring with that, that there are delays in--and they are very concerned about the…