Dennis Kucinich: “But they have been a pretty integral part. There was a time when there were little kids working in factories throughout…”

The releases from power plants and industrial boilers represent today roughly a quarter of the mercury releases to the atmosphere.

Well, it seems to me that if not in this Congress, the next Congress, that it would be timely given the fact that this issue is out there and the amount of coal that has been burned in the last couple of decades, that a study be funded…

And my own theory is while there are studies that are out there that are implicating environmental factors in autism, think about this for a minute.

What I would like to do, Mr. Chairman, is to present to you and the ranking member reports that have been forwarded to me regarding these casualties. Maybe these are reports that you've seen, and maybe they aren't; but I certainly think…