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July 16, 2005BELTWAY BLOGROLL
CapitolLink: Rep. Hilda Solis On Pesticide Testing
California Democrat Hilda Solis made her blogging debut at The Huffington Post with an appeal for the Bush administration to end pesticide testing that threatens families.
Her complaints: Low-income families are being paid to expose their children to high levels of pesticides, and the Bush administration is considering rules changes by the Environmental Protection Agency that she said "would legitimize the actual dosing of children and pregnant women with pesticides as an ethical practice."
The Senate recently voted to block the latter action, but Solis said several members of that chamber are backing an effort by Sen. Conrad Burns, R-Mont., to implement the draft regulations. "If we really want to protect public health, then Congress will send the president a bill to fund the EPA which retains the ... 'time-outs' on the testing of pesticides on humans, not one which allows pesticides to be tested on pregnant women and babies," Solis said.
Also at The Huffington Post, Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich., pressured President Bush to either force Karl Rove to explain his involvement in the outing of a CIA agent or demand that he resign as a presidential adviser.
Posted by dglover at July 16, 2005 08:13 PM
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