Frank Lautenberg actually said...

"This isn't a reorganization of the way we function here. It is to be another version of TSCA, far less harmful, but having a law that doesn't cover the bases."

"Is protecting health, children's growth, reducing costs and the agony that comes with disease, is that a worthwhile mission, enough to be bipartisan?"

"Modernization, however, must reflect, as you have said, Senator Lautenberg, the importance of the chemical industry to society and the need to maintain and indeed, encourage, innovation."

"We need to figure out a better way to provide the kind of resources that we are going to need to do the job the American people expect us to do."