EPA in particular has failed to adequately address this problem.

Do you think they should make their documents public, this working group, the Pharmaceuticals in the Environment Working Group?

I agree with you, Dr. Hirsch, to be prudent is key here. And to be prudent is to protect our children and our pregnant women and to do the work that is necessary.

Unacceptable. That is not what the law requires of you.

EPA now says it is not prepared to require drinking water systems to monitor for pharmaceuticals.

I think it speaks for itself, with open checkbook for Iraq, open checkbook for them, but we can't find a few dollars here to protect the public from what could be a threat to pregnant women and children.

Your job is to protect human health at the beach, at the drinking water tap. It is not one or the other.

What reason would there be to not make those documents available to Senator Lautenberg, Senator Vitter and myself, Senator Klobuchar?

Let's work together with this Committee. We are ready, willing and able to work with you on that.

Do you think our families have a right to know what is in their drinking water?

Get together. Get together. After this AP story scared everybody, including you, you said you are concerned...

EPA has failed to require the needed testing to determine the effects of these chemicals at low levels.

The House passed it 1 year ago, and we passed it in the committee in June 2007. This is not something that--this has been around. We have been asking Senator Reid. He wanted to bring it up, but it is getting caught up in other matters. It…

I don't see anything happening. I don't. I don't see it.

Then why is it that your budget slashed funding for EPA endocrine-disruptive chemical testing program that Dr. Hirsch said is so important?

I believe the public is really smart. And I believe moms and dads really understand what it means to drink safe water and water that makes them sick.

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