Ben Cardin actually said...

"I think now it is agreed by every member of this Committee that the TSCA law today doesn't work. It is broken. It is not protecting the public. And we have a responsibility to act."

"We agree with Senator Cardin, we think it should be reasonable certainty of no harm, as previous versions of the bill provided."

"We need to deal with asbestos, for goodness sake. We need to ban asbestos."

"We have a responsibility to pass a framework to protect the public from these toxins."