The idiot!!!!!

Carolyn Hileman - The Voice* | October 7, 2008

Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008
Dear Friend:

I am pleased to let you know that Congress has passed the Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008 (S.906), a bill to ban the export of mercury from the United States. I strongly supported this important bill and thank Senators Barack Obama and Lisa Murkowski for their leadership in introducing it and working for its passage

Mercury, when ingested, can lead to severe learning disabilities and physical illnesses, and it is especially dangerous to pregnant women and children. Yet the United States has consistently ranked as one of the world’s top exporters of mercury. This exported mercury too often finds its way back to our nation and increases the risk of harm to children’s brains and neurological systems along with other physical and developmental problems. This bill will remove a significant amount of mercury from the global market.

As Chairman of the Senate Environment Committee, this bill has been one of my highest priorities. The Mercury Export Ban Act will:

prohibit the commercial export of elemental mercury from the United States in 2013;
prohibit the commercial sale or transfer of federal mercury stockpiles held by the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense for any purpose except for transfer into permanent storage; and
provide for permanent storage of collected mercury by the Department of Energy.

The passage of this important legislation in the closing days of this Congress is very important news, and I am pleased to share it with you.

Sincerely,

Barbara Boxer
United States Senator

Hello, you do realize the global warming nuts, in other words the ones who handled this bill are the reason we are being forced to use those ugly light bulbs that contain, wait guess…. Still don’t know? OK, Mercury!!!!

Contributor's website: http://thevoice.name

*Content posted by a user may not be completely written by that user. Content from another source is cited in either block quotes, with quotes or with a link to the original material. Content from other sites is posted for commentary and news purposes under fair use. Each user is responsible for their own postings and a particular posting should not be construed as being endorsed by this site or it's owner.