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July 31st, 2008, 16:42
Several Democratic senators have called for the head of the Environmental Protection Agency to resign amid complaints that he failed to appear before numerous committee hearings and “stonewalled” efforts for congressional oversight of his agency.
Sens. Barbara Boxer, D-CA, Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI, Amy Klobuchar, D-MN, and Frank Lautenberg, D-NJ, called Tuesday, July 29, for the resignation of EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson saying he gave “misleading testimony” to Congress, didn’t cooperate with congressional oversight and made agency decisions politically rather than by using scientific evidence.
Boxer is chairman of the U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, and Whitehouse, Klobuchar and Lautenberg are committee members.
In a written statement issued by her office, Boxer came out swinging Tuesday, accusing Johnson of among other things, choosing “special interest over the American people’s interests in protecting health and safety.”
“Even before his Senate confirmation, Mr. Johnson supported a program to spray pesticides around infants and young children and then study the toxic effects,” Boxer’s statement read. “This program was called CHEERS, but it was nothing to cheer about. Revelations about this controversial program resulted in its cancellation. However, Stephen Johnson’s strong support for this program led me to oppose his nomination.”
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Sens. Barbara Boxer, D-CA, Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI, Amy Klobuchar, D-MN, and Frank Lautenberg, D-NJ, called Tuesday, July 29, for the resignation of EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson saying he gave “misleading testimony” to Congress, didn’t cooperate with congressional oversight and made agency decisions politically rather than by using scientific evidence.
Boxer is chairman of the U.S. Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, and Whitehouse, Klobuchar and Lautenberg are committee members.
In a written statement issued by her office, Boxer came out swinging Tuesday, accusing Johnson of among other things, choosing “special interest over the American people’s interests in protecting health and safety.”
“Even before his Senate confirmation, Mr. Johnson supported a program to spray pesticides around infants and young children and then study the toxic effects,” Boxer’s statement read. “This program was called CHEERS, but it was nothing to cheer about. Revelations about this controversial program resulted in its cancellation. However, Stephen Johnson’s strong support for this program led me to oppose his nomination.”
read more and click here (http://www.landlinemag.com/todays_news/Daily/2008/Jul08/072808/073008-09.htm)