Political Quotes

“Madam President, I rise this evening to share the urgent need to pass a bipartisan bill, a piece of legislation we have been working on for years now that will save the lives of children. Every year, emergency rooms across the country treat over 22,000 preventable injuries--22,000 preventable injuries--caused by falling furniture, like dressers or television sets. On average, roughly half-- half--of those injured are children, and of the vast majority of those killed by furniture tip-overs, some 81 percent are children. Eighty-one percent of all those killed by furniture tip-overs are children. The death of a child is an unspeakable loss. There is no way to calculate it, and if you haven't lived through it, I don't think any of us can understand what some families have lived through. Yet in America, the most powerful Nation on the Earth, in less than 20 years, more than 460 children have been killed by these furniture tip-overs, and that number is the reported fatality number. Compounding the grief and loss that these families experience is the fact that these deaths might have been prevented. The answer here is pretty simple: mandatory stability standards that would make our homes safer for our children. For years now, Senator Klobuchar, Senator Blumenthal, Senator Cotton, and I have led a bipartisan effort to pass the STURDY Act. Here is what all of the letters in that acronym stand for: The Stop Tip-overs of Unstable, Risky Dressers on Youth. We call it the STURDY Act.…”