Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself as much time as I may consume. I want to thank my friend from Pennsylvania for his remarks and for clearly stating this commonsense piece of legislation and for his support of it. I, too, would like to thank the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Schrader). He is the author of this piece of legislation. Something we have come to expect from Mr. Schrader is a commonsense, bipartisan piece of legislation. {time} 1230 H.R. 5714, the Pest Management Records Modernization Act, is pro- small business and pro-consumer. It improves the ability of pest management companies to communicate important information with their customers related to the products they use. As you heard from the gentleman from Pennsylvania, most States require pest management and other applicator companies to provide customers with information related to pest treatments, either automatically or upon request. Most of the requirements are implemented and enforced by State departments of agriculture, which are the State pesticide regulatory agency in 40 States. The required information is typically information directly from the pesticide label. The overwhelming majority of treatments performed by pest management professionals involve general use pesticides. Right now about 45 States permit electronic conveyance of this information directly to consumers.…”