Political Quotes

“I wish to first of all commend the work of several colleagues on this Consumer Product Safety Commission legislation, and in particular the Senator from Arkansas, Senator Pryor, for long overdue changes of the law that pertain to how we protect consumers, families, across America from unsafe products from around the world that come into Pennsylvania and come into America and can do harm to our families. So I am grateful for the work that went into this legislation. Today, I wish to raise with this amendment a particular concern I have, and I think it is shared by a lot of people in this body, and that is the threat posed by formaldehyde. I am going to put up a definition so people have a sense of what we are talking about. Formaldehyde is a colorless, strong-smelling gas, and when present in the air at levels above 0.1 parts per million, it can cause watery eyes, burning sensations in the eyes, nose, and throat, nausea, coughing, and all the things you see here, but it has also been shown to cause cancer in scientific studies using laboratory animals and may cause cancer in humans.”