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Mike Doyle: “Reclaiming my time, that bill was the companion bill here in the House, which was the same as the Boxer bill. It was Ms.…”

On the recordDecember 17, 2010
Reclaiming my time, that bill was the companion bill here in the House, which was the same as the Boxer bill. It was Ms. Eshoo's bill, which passed the committee 45-1, with 18 Republicans supporting it, including Chairman Barton, who is my dear friend. So I would just say to my friend that I would be more concerned with someone coming up to a town hall meeting to me and asking me why we haven't done everything we could to get lead out of drinking water. The standard is 8 percent in my State; to my knowledge, we don't have a lower standard. So I certainly appreciate legislation like this which sets the lowest standard we can attain with the technology we have and do so in a way that's not onerous to either the public or the manufacturers who support this bill.
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Mike Doyle
Democratic · South Carolina
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Dec 17, 2010

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The speaker discusses the importance of legislation aimed at reducing lead in drinking water.

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