James Gallagly

We have perhaps one of the most important pieces of legislation to pass in this Congress.

12,500 people lost their lives in accidents in America's factories and in other places of business.

And over 2 million people were injured.

This bill deals with that.

I would call myself a jack of all trades.

I've run every asset within ConocoPhillips when it was a Fortune 5 company.

I was the CEO of Chevron Phillips Chemical, then later the CEO of Lion Double Cell to help bring it out of bankruptcy.

Safety is a religion to me.

It turns out that if you operate really, really well, you're doing a lot of things right, and that begins with safety.

A lot of executives will stand and say, you know, safety is one of our top priorities, and very few of them can walk into a plant and do an audit.

Most of those executives don't have a pair of coveralls at every plant in the system.

I did.

If they couldn't pass our safety audit, we would not sell to them.

I can think of multiple instances where we just said, I know you'll pay a very good price, but we're not going to let you use our product.

One of the obvious questions is, well, how is the company doing today?

You know, is it the same?

And the answer is no.

No.