All of that culminated, or really, the breakthrough came in 2013
when Senator Lautenberg, just before his death, introduced
the first bipartisan legislation with Senator David Vitter from Louisiana,
probably the staunchest ally of the chemical industry in the US Congress.
And that bipartisan breakthrough began us on a path toward
the passage of TSCA reform in 2016, in the 114th Congress.
And I've laid out on this slide, some milestones in that.
I'm not going to go through these in detail.
But I just wanted to point to the fact that the Senate and
House both initially passed their own bills.
And those bills were very different.
And they spent much of the first half, from January to May of 2016,
resolving the differences in bicameral negotiations
between staff on the Senate and the House side.
That lead, finally, to a breakthrough that resolved the differences.
And then that bill had to go back to the House, was passed in May of 2016,
and back to the Senate, where it passed in June.
And then signed by the President on June 22nd of 2016.
And that was the Frank R Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act.