William Pryor: “Absolutely. Mr. DeMINT. Madam President, I appreciate the Senator's comments. I do wish to make it clear that while…”

“Absolutely. Mr. DeMINT. Madam President, I appreciate the Senator's comments. I do wish to make it clear that while Congress has set many safety standards, it is very unusual for us to select and prescribe the technology that will be used to achieve those standards. For instance, a bicycle helmet has to take a certain amount of impact, but we do not prescribe what that helmet is to be made of. We do the same with automobiles and impact. We need to tell the safety labs, the manufacturers, what standards they have to achieve, but when we start picking the technology, we get way out of bounds. I have the UL standards in front of me. I just need to clarify what my colleague from Arkansas said because the standard does require a primary reversing system as well as a secondary reversing system. So currently, most garage doors are going to have a system in the motor, and if it senses resistance, it will reverse, and there needs to be a secondary system. The way that is done today is either by some photo type of mechanism where if something crosses the path between the door and the bottom, it stops and reverses. That is one way. The other way is pressure sensitivity along the bottom of the door itself. But what the underlying bill does--the UL standard is it has to be an equivalent secondary safety measure; it has to be the photo type of system or the touch system. But this bill says it has to be the photo system.…”