EPA REGULATORY RELIEF ACT OF 2011


Janice "Jan" SchakowskyU.S. Representative
[D] Illinois, United States

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00:00:00 I WOULD LIKE TO ASK MY FRIEND MR.
00:00:02 WHITFIELD, SENSE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MERCURY OR METHYL MERCURY, IS THE AMENDMENT I OFFERED READ -- IF THE AMENDMENT OFFERED READ, INSTEAD OF THE WAY IT DOES, CONGRESS FINDS THAT MERCURY RELEASED -- BECOMES A POTENT NEUROTOXIN THAT CAN DAMAGE THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INFANT'S BRAIN?
00:00:28 BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS.
00:00:31 MERCURY, THE SEMANTICS OF IT, IT BECOMES METHYL MERCURY, WE COULD MAKE IT THAT WAY.

Ms. SCHAKOWSKY. I thank the gentleman for yielding.

I would like to ask my friend, Mr. Whitfield, since we're now talking about mercury or methylmercury, if the amendment that I offered read, instead of the way it does, ``If Congress finds that mercury released into the ambient air from industrial boilers and waste incinerators becomes a potent neurotoxin that can damage the development of an infant's brain''--because that's what happens. The mercury, if you want to pick the semantics of it, becomes methylmercury--then we could make it that way.

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