Protecting at-risk children from lead hazards in their homes requires reintegrating housing into public health and environmental health practice.

Children from low-income families are 8 times more likely to be poisoned by lead than those from high income families.

There is no more chilling example of environmental injustice than concentrations of substandard housing in low-income urban neighborhoods.

According to the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 890,000 preschool children in the United States have harmful levels of lead in their blood which can cause serious, long-term harm to children, including reduced…

The evidence is clear that controlling ongoing sources of lead exposure produces immediate and significant health benefits, which typically far outweigh the costs.

Mr. Speaker, last week the Senate passed, by unanimous consent, a resolution which designates this week--October 24, 1999, through October 30, 1999--and a similar week next year as 'National Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Week.'

Lead poisoning is a leading environmental health hazard to children in the United States.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to pay tribute to Yves Colon and Garry Pierre-Pierre, two budding young Haitian-American journalists who will launch, later this week, a new weekly newspaper, The Haitian Times.

It's certainly an idea who's time has come. May The Haitian Times be around for many years to come.

We have learned from him the centrality of God in our daily lives, conscious of the fact that the mandate of our Faith and the obligation of our citizenship must characterize our service to those who could least fend for themselves.

His countless awards aptly described him as a forceful, courageous and visionary leader not only of the religious community, but also our society at large.