03/24/2009
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"If you wanted to take action on asbestos, and as Senator Markey said, this has been an issue since a quarter of a century ago, you put it in the bill."
"Who cares? You are writing a bill so you add another title to it if you make the bill better, and you make the bill stronger, who cares?"
"If you said to somebody in the street, again, there is a dangerous chemical, when do you think it ought to be taken out of your products? You know what they would say? Yesterday."
"I also don't understand why in the new Vitter substitute there is not even a mention of asbestos."