Maxine Waters said "I yield myself 1 minute to explain to the gentleman that this is not an imposition on the rest of the country; this is a carve-out for California. This is a protection for what we have already done. We have protections in the law from 1996; and what we are saying is, you should not have national standards that are less than what we have produced in California. I have tried to protect that. I thought that I had. And as our ranking member said, a mistake was made. We thought, based on the representations of everybody, that it had been protected. And now I am here with an amendment that simply says, leave California alone and allow the better consumer laws to stand in California. Do not preempt these laws with standards that are less than what we have in California." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordSeptember 10, 2003

I yield myself 1 minute to explain to the gentleman that this is not an imposition on the rest of the country; this is a carve-out for California. This is a protection for what we have already done. We have protections in the law from 1996; and what we are saying is, you should not have national standards that are less than what we have produced in California. I have tried to protect that. I thought that I had. And as our ranking member said, a mistake was made. We thought, based on the representations of everybody, that it had been protected. And now I am here with an amendment that simply says, leave California alone and allow the better consumer laws to stand in California. Do not preempt these laws with standards that are less than what we have in California.

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Maxine Waters

Democratic · California

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing consumer protection laws specific to California during a legislative debate.

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