"I wonder if you could describe in--perhaps more specifically what we see, many of us, including providers, as a domestic gag rule preventing physicians and providers from giving the full story of the full range of health care services."
"More than 10,000 deaths, about 30 percent of all fatal crashes, are caused by drunk driving each year."
"As the Consumer Protection Subcommittee, we are committed to ensuring the safety of the American people."
"We have not really addressed the number one cause of death on America's roadways--drunk driving."
"Alcohol was the largest contributor to crashes."
"The Lautenberg Act blocked EPA from finding a chemical safe if it poses an unreasonable risk for a vulnerable subpopulation such as workers."
"Ensuring that new chemicals are safe is essential to addressing regrettable replacements where one toxic chemical is being phased out just to replace it by another analogous and equally toxic chemical..."
"Are the workers required to know about this as well or is it just the person that is in charge implementing the rule?"
"So is this, again, the problem of the dual agencies and conflicting or at least misunderstood jurisdiction?"
"it seems to me that if EPA is relying on personal protective equipment to address the risk to workers, it should impose requirements for the use of such equipment."
"Oversight of the Lautenberg Act is long overdue. I am very concerned about--that implementation of the act has veered from congressional intent, putting vulnerable populations at work."