[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 3]
[Senate]
[Page 3232]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 LEAD EXPOSURE REDUCTION AMENDMENTS ACT

  Mr. INHOFE. Madam President, I want to thank Senator Wicker for being 
an original supporter of S. 484, a bill aiming to improve EPA's lead 
paint rule. He has been a tremendous help throughout the long effort we 
have had to address this onerous and frustrating regulation. He and I 
firmly believe that this rule can be implemented in a way that both 
protects the health of children and pregnant women without 
unnecessarily raising the cost of construction projects when there 
exists only a negligible risk of harm. That is what our bill aims to 
do, and I want to thank him for being in lockstep with us from the 
beginning.

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