Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...

"But what a lay person would consider to be an approval, that this particular chemical is safe for use in these circumstances, never anywhere in this process that I can see actually gets done."

"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 liver damage, internal bleeding, and all those sorts of thing..."

"What are you doing to test for that, just so I understand?"