Steny Hoyer: “I rise, of course, Madam Speaker, in strong support of the Harvey W. Wiley Federal Building Designation Act. The…”

“I rise, of course, Madam Speaker, in strong support of the Harvey W. Wiley Federal Building Designation Act. The building which we speak of today is the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, located in my district in College Park, Maryland. Harvey Washington Wiley is best known, as has been said, for his pioneering work as the chief chemist at the Bureau of Chemistry, which of course is now known as the Food and Drug Administration. His work in the early 1900s led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug Act. As the head of the Bureau of Chemistry, Wiley served as chief enforcer of the act, and his inspection program revolutionized the country's food supply by making it healthier and safer. Each of us every day benefits from the work of Dr. Wiley. After serving 29 years, as was observed by the gentlewoman from District of Columbia (Ms. Norton), as the chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, he resigned and later established the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval as the director of Good Housekeeping Institute's Bureau of Foods, Sanitation and Health, a demonstration of his lifelong commitment to the purity of our food and our health and our safety.”