01/07/2009
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"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."
"Colleagues, this is the Environment Committee, not the board room of the chemical companies."
"Why don't we help local communities deal with cancer clusters? And so this is an opportunity to add that to this bill. And I hope we will say yes to that."
"When all the dust settles and everyone has a chance to read this bill, without this amendment, there are no deadlines to act on a chemical that is dangerous."