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Patrick Kennedy: “The fact is, we can talk to any pulmonary physician, any doctor that takes care of people with asthma, emphysema, any…”

On the recordJuly 16, 1997
The fact is, we can talk to any pulmonary physician, any doctor that takes care of people with asthma, emphysema, any kind of pulmonary disorder, and they will tell us, when any region of the country is in noncompliance they see a correlation between that region of the country being in noncompliance and a higher rate of incidence of asthma and hospitalizations due to pulmonary disorders. So there is not a lot of confusion. There should not be any confusion on this floor about the health effects of air pollution, and most particularly on a day like today, when we are seeing a red alert here in the District of Columbia and in my region in New England. We are seeing higher hospitalizations as a result of this poor air quality. Woe be on us if we do not do something to improve the air quality by moving forward with these EPA recommended standards.
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Patrick Kennedy
Rhode Island
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Addressing the health effects of air pollution and the need for EPA standards.

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