Henry Waxman: “Let us not overstate this revolving fund. We are offended by it. But this bill is a good bill. One of the reasons it is…”

“Let us not overstate this revolving fund. We are offended by it. But this bill is a good bill. One of the reasons it is a good bill is the provision the gentleman has authored to be sure we had estrogenic review of any impurities in the drinking water, any kind of pollutants that would have a causal effect on breast cancer. This is a very good bill. Let us not forget it is a very good bill. Let us not ignore that we have something we can be very proud of. It is unfortunate that we have the disagreement, and we are stating our disagreements about the result of putting in these earmarkings of the water systems. That is something we will debate and will go to conference on and talk further about, but I wanted, while the gentleman is speaking, to make the point that his contribution led to this being a much better bill in a very fundamental way. The American people are worried about impacts on them from chemicals. The idea that in their drinking water there might be something that could be a cause of breast cancer is a horrifying thought. We will now measure that, we will screen for it, and make sure that does not happen.”