Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

I can't think of another circumstance in which a regulatory agency approved something for use without actually coming to a formal decision t...

But what a lay person would consider to be an approval, that this particular chemical is safe for use in these circumstances, never anywhere...

It could be as toxic as all get-out, and it still goes on the list as long as it meets the 45 percent effectiveness threshold.

To go back to what we do know about the dispersant that Chairman Boxer referred to, which has these characteristics of hazard to humans of l...