Frank Lautenberg actually said...

"When there's a fire, firefighters do not sit on their hands and wait for it to get worse. They run to put it out."

"My safer chemicals bill will have a simple goal: force chemical makers to prove that their products are safe before they end up in a store, in our homes, or in our bodies."

"You cannot go far enough or deep enough to satisfy our obligation to make sure that things that are dangerous are discovered and at an early enough point in time so that they do not do any harm."

"Let me ask you this. So, are there new techniques for testing toxicity being developed so that scientists can move faster and with more accurate results without relying on animal testing?"