, and friends through this very tough time. Reporter moments earlier in front of the judge Harvey Bartle the third fattah expressing regret and saying investigation and trial have been the most disappointing event in his now 60 yearold life. It is a long fall for chaka to take who served as a congressman for this state, and he also served as a state legislator. Reporter u. S. Attorney zan e, who helped prosecute fattah on 18 counts of federal corruption charges including money laundering, racketeering , bribery says he hopes that this sentence, the second longest ever handed down to a member of congress, is a warning belfor other dis honest politicians. Some folks lose sight of the fact that they are here to serve the public and they may engage in certain activity, to line their pocketbooks and live that life that they think they are entitled to. And, the thing is, you have to be careful about what you do. Reporter judge says that what happened in the courtroom will be heard throughout
, and friends through this very tough time. Reporter moments earlier in front of the judge Harvey Bartle the third fattah expressing regret and saying investigation and trial have been the most disappointing event in his now 60 yearold life. It is a long fall for chaka to take who served as a congressman for this state, and he also served as a state legislator. Reporter u. S. Attorney zan e, who helped prosecute fattah on 18 counts of federal corruption charges including money laundering, racketeering , bribery says he hopes that this sentence, the second longest ever handed down to a member of congress, is a warning belfor other dis honest politicians. Some folks lose sight of the fact that they are here to serve the public and they may engage in certain activity, to line their pocketbooks and live that life that they think they are entitled to. And, the thing is, you have to be careful about what you do. Reporter judge says that what happened in the courtroom will be heard throughout
Alone, for sure, we got 80,000 signatures saying we dont experiment on our children and pregnant women in america. This is america. [ applause ] as a result, not only was the study canceled, and by the way, those who got their 750,000 got to keep it. Not only was the study canceled, by senator boxer led the fight on the hill short time after and actually won legislation that went through the house and the senate to stop experiment on children in this country. And im thinking like, yeah, right . Why would we ever do that . Why do we need law that says the Pesticide Industry cannot sit next to and join with the Environmental Protection agency and poison our children . Why do we need a law . But we do. So where are we today . Today, we are in flint, michigan. Where 100,000 people, 100,000 estimated, i think its much more than that. 100,000 people were poisoned by their own government. 100,000 people drank lead contaminated water. 100,000 people, by our own government. Gm, by the way, when
Multisignatumultiagency unit. Larry craig, center from idaho nope for his wide stance, didnt like the information they were putting out, and he reached out and had unit abolished. We were able to sue and get their positions restored. But throughout all of the head of the center asked the question that haunted us, which was, who knew math coulding dangerous . So we employ a number of tools to help scientists suing under statutes where best available science is required, use of scientific integrity policies and even tools like the data quality act and industry sponsored law that allows us to file administrative challenges to Government Agency policies. Recently we were able to use this act to get, again, guided by agency toxicologist, the epa to drop safety assurance for artificial turf made with crumb rubber. We were able to persuade the white house to order overdue multiagency Risk Assessment on using solid waste as a play surface. [ applause ] thank you. And a number of our employees,
We proved 56 of our children, over half of our children were born with birth defects. Over half our children had three ears, extra fingers, extra toes and mentally retarded. We thought thats enough evidence, the United States government, the place that were so proud of, we pay taxes, we go to church, my husbands a union man, i teach sunday school. This has got to work. And it didnt. What they said the reason we had birth defects of that rate is we were a random clustering of genetically defected people. My point of telling you this part of the story is that when i realized that it isnt about science, it isnt about facts, although all those things are critical for making your case and making sure youre right, its about political fight. That was the moment that it dawned on me that we are not going to fight this just proving theres Climate Change because we proved it. It was proven years ago. Decades ago. Were only going to win this if we get involved politically. And for that reason, i