Political Quotes

“this manikin standing next to me is not a NASA project. It is a suit that farmers must wear in the hot growing season when applying pesticides. The EPA doesn't know the cost of this, because they didn't have to do a cost-benefit analysis. The USDA estimates it will cost $500 million for farmers to meet the regulations here. The standard is impossible for the States to regulate. It is another unfunded mandate on the States. It shows no benefits in the health of workers. It is time for Congress to stop heaping additional mandates on the States without consideration of the cost of these regulations. It is time for Congress to stop issuing regulations on businesses and on farmers without risk-benefit analysis. If we had done a risk-benefit analysis by the EPA on this project, the EPA would have found out that the farmers who use these suits would have been dead long before they would have ever had any risk of pesticide abuse to their health, because they would suffocate to death, having to wear these in the hot growing season. It is time to defeat the rule and require EPA to do risk-benefit and cost-benefit analysis before they issue regulations.”