Bob Dole: “the only change is that it becomes effective 1 day after the date of enactment in the second-degree amendment. As I…”

“the only change is that it becomes effective 1 day after the date of enactment in the second-degree amendment. As I stated yesterday, opponents of regulatory reform have avoided the merits and, instead, have engaged in scare tactics. One of the most recent, perhaps most offensive, of the scare tactics has been the suggestion that regulatory reform means tainted meat, specifically, further outbreaks of E. coli food poisoning. This is an insult to the American people. It is also false. Opponents know that this claim is false, and the media knows it. Yesterday, I included in my statement and accompanying fact sheet in the Record two specific provisions already in the bill to make it obvious that this bill would not hold up meat inspection rules. One provision allows the implementation of a regulation without first complying with other requirements of the bill where there is 'an emergency or health or safety threat.' That seems pretty clear to me. That is in the bill. It does not get any clearer than that. It is a sign of either sloppy journalism or extreme cynicism, and this amendment ought to be named the Ralph Nader- Margaret Carlson-Bob Herbert amendment. I have listened to these commentators--who probably never read the bill--and they talk about the terrible things that can happen and that we are all going to eat tainted meat. Margaret Carlson said 5,000 people are going to die, and then she corrected it to 500 before the program ended.…”