Posted on 07/06/2016 1:12:50 PM PDT by simpson96
Lawmakers and their aides are being offered free blood tests after lead was found in water fountains at the U.S. Capitol office building.
Beginning today, “blood lead level testing will be available to House Members and Staff, with a valid congressional badge, at no cost to the individual or office,” the Architect of the Capitol wrote to Hill staffers Tuesday, according to Roll Call.
The Architect, Stephen Ayers, — whose office handles maintenance at the Capitol — last week found lead levels “slightly above the [Environmental Protection Agency] standard, ” in drinking water in one of the House office buildings, and ordered it shut off in the the Cannon House Office Building.
“What’s important in the meantime, as we go through that process, is to be sure the building occupants have a potable source of water,” Ayers said. “We got that taken care of and we need to be sure we communicate with them what’s happening on a regular basis.”
According to the EPA, lead can cause reproductive, kidney, and cardiovascular problems in adults; cause premature birth or reduced fetus growth in pregnant women; and lower IQ, seizures, and worse in children.
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Well, this explains a LOT!
The jokes practically write themselves...
Gee sure hope they found this in time for none of them to get sick, like those people did in Detroit.
I play with lead. Mood my own bullets, shoot in questionable indoor ranges. Have a jar of mercury too.... fun to roll in your fingers.
A few years back I figure I better get checked out.
Lower than normal for this local for heavy metal. Bunch a panty waist sissy lawmakers
Beat me to it!
That explains what it was that affected their brains.
Mold not mood. To much lead in the iPhone.
I guess Hillary will want the data from those tests to use as blackmail to control 'lawmakers and their aides'.
We can rest assured that lead in the Capital drinking fountains has nothing to do with the low IQ’s many in Congress already possess.
I think we all know where the lead has settled with these cali infringinators don’t we?
Didn’t the ancient Romans have the same problem?
Yea, but does this also prove conclusively that it’s linked to evil?
That explains the glazed expressions at the trough in the Capitol Vomitorium.
Here comes the lawsuits.
The give the rest of America incurable tuberculosis
and insane slavers and terrorists, and they want
Americans to care about them?
NOT A CHANCE.
The EXEMPT GOP and DNC have denied medical benefits to VETS
even those who used in chemical weapons tests.
Instead, the EXEMPT have given medical care
to narcoterrorists
and to Islamic slavers they import by the THOUSANDS
using Quartering.
Do you believe that it is because of lead in the water that they are doing these ‘free’ blood tests ?
I don’t know about the US Capitol Office, but most buildings these days have bottled water, in one form or another (office water cooler or personal bottles). Women, especially, do not drink out of water fountains. Most buildings I have been in lately do not have ANY water fountains.
John Lewis has been drinking that water for 29 years, and is certified as having a negative IQ.
Ah. Good catch.
It could be linked to evil. However, the FBI would say that there was no 'evil intent'.
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