On the recordDecember 17, 2010
The gentleman will realize, of course, that oftentimes a bill has a wonderful-sounding name on it. And bills sometimes pass here by unanimous consent; and lo and behold, we go back and find there are unintended consequences. I submit to the gentleman that when the Senate passed this, they might have done that under the same auspices. And I suspect if they looked at it carefully, particularly some of the folks over there that I know, they would not have been in unanimous support of this. Also when you talk about the Plumbing Manufacturers Institute, as you know, lots of times when people are quoted down here, there are sometimes, and I'm not saying this is always true, but sometimes there is vested interest in an issue. We see sometimes on the floor some people are proponents of an issue, and lo and behold there is some perhaps indirect, discrete, perhaps some vested interest. I have not seen the Plumbing Manufacturers Institute letters, I am not familiar with that, but I suspect I could find a letter on this side that would refute the Plumbing Manufacturers Institute. In fact, we have many people who have pointed out to us that this is going to increase cost. So your other argument that people will not react, I have seen people react, particularly young families who perhaps think that there might be lead in the water with their infants, and they might overreact.
