WASHINGTON, DC- U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA), Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and Mary Landrieu (D-LA) today introduced an amendment to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) reform bill that would help protect Americans from dangerous levels of formaldehyde in textiles including clothes, draperies, fabric and carpeting. The amendment would require the CPSC to regulate and test formaldehyde in textiles.
Another good job by Democratic Senator, Mary Landrieu but is it too little too late? My only gripe with Louisiana politicians, is that it takes a crisis to happen to OTHER states before our elected officials get their butts in gear.
With so many watchdog agencies of the U.S.gov. reporting that FEMA trailers in La. (the ones who were lucky enough to even get those)-tested at toxic levels for cancer causing toxins, no Louisiana official acted on this information.
Gov. Jindal, Senator Vitter, Senator Landrieu, Lt. Gov Mitch Landrieu, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and the Presidents of Plaquemines, Jefferson and St.Bernard Parish-aren't being held accountable for almost 100 billion dollars disappearing from Louisiana!
The New Orleans "Times Picayune" has proved to be nothing but a RR machine for corruption, illegal immigration into New Orleans, and a platform of corrupt Republicans in this state and Texas. The people in lower Louisiana have no knowledge of this corruption because there isn't an honest media outlet willing to cover and expose it or willing to cover anyone beyond New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and his personal life! NO ONE CARES ABOUT MAYOR NAGIN'S HOME IN DALLAS! WE CARE ABOUT THESE LAND GRABS and Levees taking 10 years to build just to withstand a Cat.4 Hurricane! We care about why MSNBC news crews are finding paper being used as stuffing for holes in the levee system. Can we get some real journalism in lower Louisiana?
I can't even get into the corrupt city council members in each of these Parishes, many of whom have no formal education!
But, beggers can't be choosers. If Barack Obama can stop out sourcing of American jobs to India ( a move to surely piss off East-Indian Gov. Piyush Jindal) and Senator Landrieu can block future Louisiana kids and elderly from being exposed to poisons and toxins-then we have to take it.
There are many cancer deaths due to people living for over six months in a FEMA trailer simply because Gov. Bobby Jindal and his corrupt Southern Republican handlers did not want to build the Katrina cottages for New Orleans black folks, in an effort to destabilize and demographic-shift the city of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina or to create the "NEW" New Orleans as the media and La. officials in Baton Rouge raved about and desired.
These FEMA trailers have been used to house people for years when it should have only been used for a matter of months! We have no idea of the affects that living long-term in a toxic FEMA trailer will have on growing kids, who have spent 3 years in these things and we know that there is no bottom level for the U.S. gov when it comes to lying and covering-up crimes-especially in Louisiana state.
In conclusion, Mary Landrieu, has been the only one in La.-doing anything about shining a spot light on a wide and vast network of incompetence and criminal activity against the folks of Louisiana state.
Now who will be brave enough to take on the corrupt Army Corp of Engineers and the fake levees in Plaquemines Parish that are owned by oil companies and being used to steal land from American citizens without compensation? Republican Senator Vitter has been MIA since he threw a fit at the airport and gotten caught with a New Orleans madame! Senator David Vitter has done nothing in this state. He goes to Belle Chase in Plaqumines Parish, when he should be in Port Sulphur and when those poor folks are asking about why the Army Corp. has taken their land and built the "private" levees even lower to the ground-Vitter simply answers, "I dont know." That has been his answer for the last 3 years!
Senator David Vitter, La. Gov. Jindal (Piyush) and Plaqumines Parish President Billy Nungessor-are nothing more than PR water boys for a modern day Louisiana Bohemian Spillway in Plaquemines.
“The CPSC has identified formaldehyde as a potential hazard but has failed to regulate it in textiles,” said Casey. “American consumers can’t test these products on their own and American manufacturers should not have to compete with corner cutting competitors. It is time the Consumer Product Safety Commission does its job and keeps Americans safe by testing for formaldehyde to protect consumers from this poison.”
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