we did a back-painted shower where everything in this shower was chromium green. and -- yeah. >> nice. >> and including the floors. and so it's all back-painted glass. so you don't want to -- i mean, gosh, i could slip -- you could slide on a thing like that. and so it's this non--slip glass. >> i wanted to know what kind of glass is made of -- in tanks, where you can shoot through. >> the answer is it's a laminated glass. they're using a -- but instead of laminating it with a polyvinyl beautate, they're using their own product, which is a different kind of acrylic that they've got proprietary rights on, that is more gummy, it's something that they have formed there. but it's essentially like a sheet plastic, but of a different configuration, and extra clear, that they laminate between pieces of tempered glasses. those pieces in the tanks are about that thick. and they are slanted so that they can't see glare. and what we have to do in a tank, or -- on the inside, where you are shooting from, is you have to put a laminated piece of glass or plastic to the inside.

it contains an array of the most harmful hazardous chemicals out there, mercury, lead, chromium, arsenic, that are especially devastating to the development of children. over the years billions of tons of coal ash have been dumped in poorly designed waste beds and contaminate sites and communities across the country. i want to remind my colleagues on the other side of the aisle of the catastrophic coal cash spill in kingston, tennessee, in 2008. where 1.1 billion gallons of liquid coal waste seeped out of a contaminant pool and contaminated local drinking water. i would also remind my republican colleagues that it cost the taxpayers more than $1 billion to clean up that disaster and that residents in that kingston area are still dealing with its continuing effects. h.r. 2273 is a bad piece of legislation. and it flies in the face of commonsense safety precaution when is disposing of hazardous materials. by leaving the establishment of coal ash safety standards solely at the discretion of states, this bill simply encourages a race to the bottom where the state willing to have the least pr

she says blood test showed she had elevated levels of cobalt and chromium. >> they don't really know, they being the medical community, what those elevated levels can do to your system. >> reporter: katie's artificial hip the depew asr was recalled by the company last year. katie has since gotten a new one. >> i thought i was going to have 15, 20 years before i had to do it again. >> reporter: now she has hired a lawyer. >> if you have a depew hip replacement these components had unreasonably high failure rates your health may be in danger. >> first thing you need to do is get an attorney. >> reporter: hip specialist dr. ted parks has never used a metal on metal device. >> there appears to be a serious problem in some metal on metal bearings not all and maybe not for all patients. >> reporter: katie got fastrak approval through the 5 10k process an option when device are substantially equivalent to existing products. >> the problem is most of these device have never undergone human testing prior to getting on the market. >> the hip replacement and knee replacement are unique in that t

other tocks ill metals, getting a path under these bills, are arsenic, chromium and lead which are known to cause cancer and birth defects. despite these facts, my friends on the other side cling to their anti-regulatory dogma with fanatical fervor. i had a friend say to me last night that some people have a conscience and brain and others just think about dollar signs. and i feel that my colleagues who have brains, i believe have consciences, seem to place the dollar sign ahead of many of the practical matters that would benefit society. this government rhetoric has gone so far to leave my colleagues on the other side astray of the protocalls laid out by majority leader cantor. in the third protocol laid out in his legislative protocols for the 112th congress leader cantor writes, and i quote him, any bill or joint resolution authorizing discretionary appropriations shall specify the actual amount of funds being authorized. authorizations shall not utilize terms such as, quote, such sums as may be necessary, unquote, or similar language that fails to specify the actual amount of funding

chromium six was made famous by the movie "erin brockovich" starring julia roberts. that has been linked to stomach and other forms of cancer. and let's not forget mercury, a substance had a is particularly harmful to children because it impairs brain development, impacting memory, attention and language and potentially leading to life-long disabilities. the mercury is released directly into the air we all breathe and finds its way into the food which we eat. in 2010 all 50 states issued fish consumption adviseries, warning citizens to limit how often they eat fish caught in state waters because of mercury contamination. this bill seeks to permanently eliminate e.p.a.'s ability to reduce these toxic emissions from industrial boilers and does so despite the fact that the american boiler manufacturers association, the association that represents the very companies that designs, manufacturers and supplies the industrial boilers in question oppose the republicans' bill. that's right. the companies which stated they stand ready and able to harness american ingenuity and t