Richard Durbin actually said...
the average person on the street, if you said to them, we have a Government agency, which is funded, with experts and laboratories, and we've asked them to figure out how to keep our furniture safe so it is less likely to catch fire, and less likely to kill us, they've been at it now for 9 years, make that 4 years.
Context
Durbin questions the effectiveness of government efforts to ensure furniture safety.
07/16/2012