House Introduces Chemical Security Bill

The chemical security bill was introduced on March 11th. H.R. 5577 was introduced by the House Homeland Security Chairman Bennie Thompson, with 18 original co-sponsors from the committee. Since the bill was “marked up” in the Homeland Security Committee before its formal introduction, our focus now turns to the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

PIRG activists from across the country met with members of the E&C committee to urge co-sponsorship, including an in-person meeting with Rep. Tammy Baldwin (WI) led by WisPIRG student Andrew Sellers, and a meeting with E&C committee vice-chair Diana DeGette’s (CO) office where CoPIRG students Dan Omasta and Katie Crowe presented 400 postcards in favor of chemical security to the staffer.