Testimony From Administration Witnesses on Pesticide Legislation (S. 985, S. 1478, and S. 2050)
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Excerpt from Testimony From Administration Witnesses on Pesticide Legislation (S. 985, S. 1478, and S. 2050): Hearing of the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry United States Senate One Hundred Third Congress Second Session to Receive Testimony From Administration Witnesses on Pesticide Legislation (S. 985, S. 1478, and S. 2050); June 29, 1994 The committee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:41 a.m., in room SD-628, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Patrick J. Leahy, Chairman of the committee, presiding. Present or submitting a statement: Senators Leahy, Pryor, Lugar, Cochran, McConnell, Grassley, Feingold, and Inouye. Statement of Hon. Patrick J. Leahy, a U.S. Senator from Vermont The Chairman. The committee will come to order. I am pleased to welcome today Richard Rominger from USDA, Carol Browner and Lynn Goldman from EPA, and David Kessler and Michael Taylor from FDA. I want to be sure and make everybody understand, when looking at the lineup of Secretary Rominger and Dr. Kessler and Ms. Browner, that we were not talking about agricultural crops like tobacco this morning. We are really here to discuss the Clinton administration´s proposal to overhaul our pesticide and food safety laws. I have worked on pesticide issues since 1978, and I am used to the overblown rhetoric that always seems to accompany pesticide legislation. The administration´s bill has been called unfair, unworkable, even chemo-phobic. Some would have Congress and the American people believe that reduced pesticide use, as the administration is committed to do, would lead to skyrocketing food prices and bare shelves in the grocery store. In fact, some have even said that the farmers themselves are not capable of reducing pesticide use. One study that was released by those opposed to any pesticide reform says, "Few farm managers would have the required management skills to farm under reduced chemical systems." This is in a country with the best farming system in the world, and I think those releasing this study have the attitude that farmers are not bright enough to know what they are doing. Well, this is poppycock. While D.C. lobbyists are debating about whether farmers can reduce pesticide use - and many of these lobbyists have never been on a farm - farmers are out in the field doing it, by the thousands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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