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Chris Murphy: “The agency's toy testing department, it's lab hasn't been modernized since 1975, and the department consists of one man…”

On the recordOctober 31, 2007
The agency's toy testing department, it's lab hasn't been modernized since 1975, and the department consists of one man who drops toys on the floor in his office to see if they'll break. I mean, that's it. There you go. I mean, that's the toy testing regimen of the United States Government is a guy, and I'm sure he's a wonderfully nice guy. But he sits in his office at his desk and he takes toys and he drops them on the floor to see if they'll break. I mean, that's what we got now. That's what you got for these record deficits, for all the spending in Iraq, for breaks for oil companies and drugs companies. You've got one guy who drops toys from his desk and sees if they'll break.
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Chris Murphy
Democratic · Connecticut

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Discussing the inadequacies of the toy testing department at the CPSC.

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