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A Congressman With a Thirst for Truth
Published July 8, 2009
There must be something in the water in this town.
The nation is entangled in two wars, a deep recession and a flu pandemic, and the people's representatives are hard at work investigating the menace of . . . bottled water?
"With all the life-threatening health priorities facing the FDA, including numerous foodborne-illness outbreaks, complications with acetaminophen and the swine flu pandemic, this issue does to me seem a little secondary," chided Rep. Greg Walden (Ore.), the ranking Republican on the panel.
That third group was well represented yesterday in the Rayburn Building, where a House committee spent two hours testing the waters of bottled-water regulation. Aided by witnesses from the Environmental Working Group and the Government Accountability Office, Stupak had the tenacity of Eliot Ness as he took on the Fiji-sipping crowd.
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