Political Quotes

“I urge support of the bill and certainly urge defeat of the Obey motion to recommit with instructions. In the 1970s, the Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a regulation concerning children's sleepwear, and in this 1970s regulation, the CPSC required that baby's sleepwear be coated with a chemical known as tris, T-R-I-S. Thereafter, the regulation went out and all of the baby sleepwear in America was coated with this chemical. It turns out that this chemical caused cancer. It was a pesticide. It had to be recalled at enormous expense to the American people, at enormous danger to American consumers, and it continues to be a black mark on the history of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. This is what then Congressman Al Gore had to say about the tris disaster with the Consumer Product Safety Commission: Quote, ``The magnitude of this nightmare is difficult to fathom. Here we take all of the sleepwear for children of this country and soak it in what is basically a pesticide, a mutagenic, and then we wrap up American children in these garments.'' I unquote then Congressman Al Gore.”