[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 154 (Tuesday, September 24, 2019)]
[House]
[Page H7873]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                    INCLUDE PFAS PROVISIONS IN NDAA

  (Ms. TLAIB asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. TLAIB. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to support hundreds of 
communities across America, both rural and urban, that are being forced 
to endure PFAS contamination.
  Every week, we learn more and more about the toxicity and ever-
widening scope of this man-made crisis.
  Not one but two PFAS sites have been discovered in my own district, 
the 13th Congressional District, first seeping from the sewers in 
Melvindale and then at the construction site of the Gordie Howe 
International Bridge in Detroit.
  As a representative of people living in those areas, and from the 
State with the most PFAS sites in the country, it is my moral 
obligation to stand before you all today and say time is now for 
Congress to act. Include provisions to clean up contaminated sites, to 
stop PFAS from polluting our drinking water in the future, and to 
protect our servicemembers and first responders in the final NDAA that 
is on its way.
  We have waited long enough to help families whose drinking water is 
at risk, who have been exposed to these toxic chemicals, and whose 
future is very much threatened.

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