{"id":4323,"date":"2015-05-07T11:53:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-07T16:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/?p=4323"},"modified":"2024-02-12T11:01:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-12T16:01:42","slug":"edf-welcomes-14-additional-cosponsors-of-the-lautenberg-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/health\/2015\/05\/07\/edf-welcomes-14-additional-cosponsors-of-the-lautenberg-act\/","title":{"rendered":"EDF welcomes 14 additional cosponsors of the Lautenberg Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Denison, Ph.D.,\u00a0<\/em>is a Lead Senior Scientist.<\/em><\/p>\n

Environmental Defense Fund welcomes today\u2019s announcement <\/a>that 14 additional Senators \u2013 7 Democrats and 7 Republicans \u2013 have cosponsored the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st<\/sup> Century Act (S. 697<\/a>).\u00a0 This brings the total number of Senators cosponsoring the legislation to 36, more than a third of the full Senate.<\/p>\n

The Lautenberg Act would reform our nation\u2019s badly broken 40-year-old chemical safety law, the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).\u00a0 The equal numbers of Democrats and Republicans lending their names to this legislation not only affirms strong bipartisan support, but demonstrates Congress\u2019 growing recognition that reform of TSCA is urgent, and that this bill is a solid compromise that represents our best chance in a generation to significantly improve public health protections from toxic or untested chemicals.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s announcement was made possible by a breakthrough in negotiations immediately preceding the April 28 markup of the legislation in the Environment and Public Works Committee, which led the Committee to approve the revised bill on a strong 15-5 bipartisan vote.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s announcement in turn signifies that it is now time to move the legislation to the Senate floor.<\/p>\n

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Adding their names today to the 22 earlier cosponsors of the Lautenberg Act are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY)<\/td>\nSen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)<\/td>\nSen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)<\/td>\nSen. Chris Murphy (D-CT)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR)<\/td>\nSen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sen. John Isakson (R-GA)<\/td>\nSen. Tim Scott (R-SC)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)<\/td>\nSen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO)<\/td>\nSen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Richard Denison, Ph.D.,\u00a0is a Lead Senior Scientist. Environmental Defense Fund welcomes today\u2019s announcement that 14 additional Senators \u2013 7 Democrats and 7 Republicans \u2013 have cosponsored the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (S. 697).\u00a0 This brings the total number of Senators cosponsoring the legislation to 36, more than a third …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,114108],"tags":[56107],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-4323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-policy","category-tsca","tag-lautenberg-act"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t