[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 65 (Friday, May 16, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H2796]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




 THE CHILDREN'S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RIGHT TO KNOW ACT OF 1997

  (Mr. SAXTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. SAXTON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to explain a bill that was 
introduced late yesterday afternoon, which already has almost 100 
cosponsors. It is called the Children's Environmental Protection and 
Right to Know Act of 1997.
  One of the reasons this bill has been so successful already in 
attracting support is that we did not try to reinvent the wheel. We 
borrowed one idea from a law in California and another idea from a law 
in New Jersey.
  First, the California law provides further information about toxins 
present in children's consumer products and eventually in consumer 
products for adults, based on this very successful 10-year-old program 
and law in California.
  Second, we borrowed from New Jersey a bill which builds upon a very 
successful 10-year-old New Jersey law that expands the toxic release 
inventory to include a once a year accounting of toxic materials used 
and stored in industrial facilities.
  I would like this morning to invite and urge my fellow Members of 
Congress to support this legislation, and join the nearly 100 
cosponsors that have already signed on.

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