Political Quotes

“So that just demonstrates, Judge, the fact that styrene is so pervasive in all of our consumer products. Now, what has happened is the National Toxicology Program said that styrene is a carcinogen. They looked at a couple of studies, did a very, very poor job in looking at the history and the other studies available. In fact, the European Union and Canada came to the opposite conclusion and said that there's nothing wrong with styrenes, that it does not cause cancer. What we're trying to do is get the National Academy of Sciences, which is widely regarded as the final word in these scientific matters, to conduct an independent study on styrene. Now, if nothing happens and styrene remains on this list of something that's ``likely to cause cancer,'' it could end up destroying hundreds of thousands of jobs in America. Let me give you an example. The company that makes all the plastic utensils for McDonald's, that company uses styrenes. And what we see developing here are insurance companies that are taking a look at the plastic companies that use styrene, and they're becoming very nervous over the fact that the government is taking a position that, without good case study, styrene is a carcinogen. So insurance companies are starting to balk at insuring the companies that use styrene. Lawyers have already met examining the best way that they could bring the class action lawsuits for all of these products that contain styrenes.…”