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IN-RFormer senators
The promise that stem cells hold does not come from any particular ideology, it is the judgment of science, and we deserve a President who will put that judgment first and make this promise real for the American people.
We believe that we rise or fall as one people.
I need to publicly thank Senator Durbin for his efforts earlier this year... to get an additional $8 million for the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is not equipped to handle the challenges that it faces today in the American marketplace.
I think every parent, every pediatrician in America would agree that we should just ban lead in all children's toys.
It is time to change our current system of voluntary guidelines and use the force of law to get the lead out of the hands and mouths of our children.
I applaud Chairman Pryor's efforts to provide the Consumer Product Safety Commission with the tools it needs to ensure that it can properly protect consumers.
The goal is to move as quickly as possible--we'd love to get broad-based, bipartisan co-sponsors on it.
It is clear that we must take action to remove these toxic toys from our shores and from our stores.
Senator Bill Nelson and Senator Durbin have been working very hard on that language and trying to make sure that that makes sense.
It is no secret that I believe we can and should be doing more to protect parents and children from dangerous products.
Our bill would move this agency from the 401 employees that it has today, up to 500 employees by 2013.
This just shouldn't be happening in America. And why is our CPSC letting it happen?
There is no excuse that the CPSC has a laboratory that looks like that. And a large part of what Senator Pryor has just outlined will address that.
If the Chinese Government is not going to police it, and if the Chinese industry isn't going to police it, then there's an easy way for us to insist.
We support what Senator Pryor is doing in his subcommittee. Hopefully, we can produce this out of our full Commerce Committee and get it moving.
