KEY REPUBLICAN TO OPPOSE HOUSE LANGUAGE ON HUMAN PESTICIDE TESTING

摘要

Sen. Conrad Burns (R-MT), chairman of the subcommittee that oversees EPA spending, will likely oppose a provision in the House version of the agency's appropriations bill that bans the agency from using data generated from pesticide testing on humans, after EPA and industry lobbied against the House language, a congressional source says. "We've heard numerous expressions of concern about the House language from the science community, the agency and industry, and we're not likely to follow along," the source says. The development foreshadows a fight that is likely to occur in the Senate and when a House-Senate conference committee convenes later this year to finalize the agency's appropriations legislation for fiscal year 2006. The Senate version of the bill won full Appropriations Committee approval June 9.