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As a mom i think about what would i do if i had to send my child to School Every Day alongside a field where i knew they were spraying pesticides but i didnt know when and i didnt know what. We require our kids to go to school why dont we require these companies to at least inform the parents or the School Administrators what their spring when and where. So we started to ask questions like well what chemicals are they spray how do we manage runoff send an email to gary who is or asking him about it what we can do what how we could start a bill to get these Chemical Companies regulated so we ca...

[inaudible conversations] the committee will come to order. Good morning, and welcome to our witnesses, several of whom have traveled the considerable distances to be here today for this important hearing on paid family and medical leave. Before we move to our scheduled committee business, i want to take a moment to acknowledge the recent tragic passing of pamela moomau, a valued member staff of the staff of the joint committee on taxation for over 28 years. A reminder, again, of the considerable talent that exists sometimes outside of the glare of publicity. Pamela began her career at the joi...

Study the last 4 pages are the chemicals that they have found. We have shown an association between organophosphate exposure as measured by those metabolites in the mothers urine during pregnancy and shorten just station abnormal neonatal reflexes decreased Mental Development in the children at 2 years of age decreased i. Q. At age 7 and 10 years of age pervasive developmental disorder which is like. Symptoms attention problems. Or executive functioning in preadolescents and we have also shown that there are some populations of people that might be more affected than others i virtue of their g...

As a mom i think about what would i do if i had to send my child to School Every Day alongside a field where i knew they were spraying pesticides but i didnt know when and i didnt know what. We require our kids to go to school why dont we require these companies to at least inform the parents or the School Administrators what theyre spraying when and where. So we started to ask questions like well what chemicals are they spray how do we manage runoff. Email to gary who is are asking him about it what we can do what how we could start a bill to get these Chemical Companies regulated so we can p...

A lot of places theyve clearly said theyre not using the and i was like well can you get records like how do we prove that theyre not using those laws for the records thats when everything started to get interesting. At the point that there was something going on the more i dug into it the more troubling it became. So youre telling me like you cant get the records so he goes im submitting freedom of Information Department of agriculture 600. 00 in like 3 months but we got a list of 22. 00 different restricted use pesticides many of those are banned in other states and other in other nations an...