On the recordNovember 10, 2011
I will respond on my time; the Senator can respond on his. Let me tell you something. As far as I know, we do not have one person in this Senate who is a physician with a degree in lung specialty, thoracic specialty, cardiovascular specialty; therefore, we need to look to those people. You are right. When you go to the hospital and talk to physicians, they will tell you about children dying in their arms. I have seen that testimony, I have heard it in front of our committee. The fact is, this rule will prevent 400,000 cases of aggravated asthma attacks and 1.8 million lost work and school days. This is factual. I want to say that hearing people come on this floor questioning whether there is an association between soot in the air and asthma attacks, frankly, is to me unimaginable. And we have all of the health organizations that disagree with Senator Paul on that.
