Good afternoon. Thank you for joining us. My name is cliff johnson, the general manager and head of Government Affairs solutions here at Bloomberg Government. I am actually delighted to welcome you to a 2020 springhill watch event. Hopefully by now youve all the chance to take a look at the newest addition of our biannual hill watch report that explores what to watch on capitol hill across more than 20 different policy areas, and of course, this report also examines the effect of covid19, the need for related relief legislation as both parties agendas and plans for 2020. Today were incredibly excited to build upon of a reporting teams expert analysis through conversation with a key lawmaker, and that is senator john thune of south dakota, who is here with us today to discuss the current state of affairs. You can participate in todays discussion on social media by using the hashtag bgovhillwatch to be sure to follow bgov on twitter. I do have a couple of housekeeping announcements just
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This is serious serious stuff to deserves our attention to submit deserves we dont was now it was a grassroots bill from people who really were educated what was going on and were concerned. It was a good way to make conscious decisions. How to deal with these companies it asks for buffer zones very minimal buffer zones much smaller than in other states around schools homes hospitals and shorelines and other sensitive areas there 500 feet 100 feet around shorelines for pesticide disclosure including general use pesticides on a daily basis from these companies as well as health and Environmental Impact study. To ask for simple protection and this. Is is a human right. I think its something that were all entitled to know is. What are we really whats in a air whats in our water and how is it a. Its a violation of the most fundamental human right that people who are being subject to experiments need to be fully informed of all the risks before they allow themselves to be a part of this exp
Recent years of students getting sick from pesticides used by farmers near schools this is really great and several incidents in 2008 in why man koichi where dozens of students got sick after a pesticide was applied on a nearby seed corn plot weve seen example after example where weve had to rush children from a Public School to an e. R. Like the ones i work in across the state for severe area long problems we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants theres no question otherwise why would that a Chemical Company workers themselves be geared up and suited up what happened with why im a middle school was particularly egregious the state of Hawaii Department of agriculture does not do its job with respect to investigating complaints about pesticide drift and for years this has been the case it doesnt monitor the air it doesnt monitor the water it doesnt monitor the soil to make sure that pesticides are not leaving the fields and going into where people live and
This is really great and several incidents in 2008 in why man koichi where dozens of students got sick after a pesticide was applied on a nearby seed corn plot weve seen example after example where weve had to rush children from a Public School to an e. R. Like the ones i work in across the state for severe long problems we know that these chemicals have consequences they are major irritants theres no question otherwise why would the Chemical Company workers themselves be geared up and suited up what happened with why im a middle school was particularly egregious the state of Hawaii Department of agriculture does not do it with respect to investigating complaints about pesticide drift and for years this is been the case it doesnt monitor the air it doesnt monitor the water it doesnt monitor the soil to make sure that pesticides are not leaving the fields and going into where people live and play and work. As a mom i think about what would i do. If i had to send my child to School Every