#frank lautenberg

“When it comes to women, they don’t get rights. They get restrictions…. I have five daughters and eight granddaughters, and the one thing I worry about more than anything else is their health. I like to see their happy faces. I like to see them feeling good… So I want them to have doctors making decisions, not some employer who has a self-righteous moral view that he wants to impose on my daughter, my granddaughter, my wife. Nuh uh. On our side of the aisle, we believe that women are capable of making their own healthcare decisions.”

When it comes to women, they don’t get rights. They get restrictions… I have five daughters and eight granddaughters, and the one thing I worry about more than anything else is their health. I like to see their happy faces. I like to see them feeling good… So I want them to have doctors making decisions, not some employer who has a self-righteous moral view that he wants to impose on my daughter, my granddaughter, my wife. Nuh uh. On our side of the aisle, we believe that women are capable of making their own healthcare decisions.

The U.S. Senate without dissent on Thursday passed legislation to regulate toxic chemicals, updating a 39-year-old law that didn't even allow the federal government to regulate asbestos. The bill was named for the late U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), who championed the legislation during his tenure on Capitol Hill. Lautenberg died in 2013 at age 89.... The measure now must be reconciled with similar legislation passed by the U.S. House in June. That measure was co-sponsored by U.S. Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-6th Dist.), the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.... The measure would give the Environmental Protection Agency new powers to oversee the safety of chemicals on public health and the environment, based on current science. It would set national standards for chemicals rather than allow states to act on their own, and pre-empt existing state rules, though states could regulate any chemicals that the EPA does not, and could seek waivers to impose their own standards.

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