Lateefah Simon: “What we need in this field is some balance. There is no question we have overregulation. Anyone, in any field--I do not…”

“What we need in this field is some balance. There is no question we have overregulation. Anyone, in any field--I do not care whether it is education, medicine, what the field is--recognizes we have overregulation. But the bill that came out of the committee headed by Senator Roth and Senator Glenn, being the ranking member, that came out 15 to nothing--that strikes me as having that balance. Let us just take a look at a few examples. Iron poison--between 1990 and 1993, 28 children under the age of 6 died from iron poisoning after taking adult iron-containing products. Overdoses of iron tablets by children can result in intestinal bleeding, shock, coma, seizures, or possibly death. Iron is now a leading cause of poisoning deaths for children under the age of 6. The FDA has proposed warning labels. This bill might well delay what could come, and would permit judicial review that clearly could cause delay. Let me give another example. When it was proposed that we have safety belts in our cars, the automobile industry was not enthusiastic about that, as many of us here will recall.”