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Lawmakers tested after lead found in US Capitol office water fountains
New York Post ^ | 7/6/2016 | Daniel Halper

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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To: Axenolith

you post: “ Yea, but does this also prove conclusively that it’s linked to evil?”

Think Caligula.

He had an elaborate plumbing system - lead pipes - on his huge private ships -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN-DVLBlufY

Caligula the mad man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucA7P_3dqAo


41 posted on 07/06/2016 2:54:05 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (A Christian is as a Christian does - "By their works...")
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To: ColdOne

Flint not Detroit.


42 posted on 07/06/2016 2:56:10 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: ViLaLuz

Some have proposed the theory but it’s probably not true.

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/wine/leadpoisoning.html


43 posted on 07/06/2016 3:08:23 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: simpson96

Now, I know why the newly elected go “stupid” once they get elected.


44 posted on 07/06/2016 3:21:15 PM PDT by ptsal
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To: simpson96

There must sure be a whole lot of lead in that there water!


45 posted on 07/06/2016 4:42:41 PM PDT by Bellflower
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To: maine-iac7

Good point, though they also sweetened wine with lead acetate because it is sweet (and people bitched about saccharin!)


46 posted on 07/06/2016 5:41:38 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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