Political Quotes

“I rise in support of the statements by my colleagues Mr. Craig and Mr. Harkin, I have a longstanding interest in ensuring that pesticides meet FQPA's safety standards based on factual, reliable scientific data. The additional funding discussed by Mr. Craig and Mr. Harkin for strengthening EPA's scientific analysis on worker exposure and drinking water would also help enhance sound scientific decisions by EPA. Moreover, the additional funding for faster review and approval of reduced risk pesticides will enable these products to be on the market sooner, and help ensure that farmers and others have a complete tool box to control pests that attack their crops and threaten public health. I look forward to working with Mr. Craig, Mr. Harkin, and Ms. Mikulski to consider these additional funds in the conference report.”