“David Rosner has died. He was a great researcher whose work proved that the lead paint industry poisoned millions of children. Companies attacked him, but he stood up to them. I am honoring his life and putting three articles about him into the record.”

“Mr. President, I won’t speak long. David Rosner has died. You have probably never heard of him, but I knew him. His research, along with his colleague Gerry Markowitz, helped expose the role of the lead paint industry in poisoning millions of children. He was a great public health researcher. Here is his book with Gerry Markowitz, which I just took down from my Senate bookshelf, where I keep it: ``Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution.’’ David had smarts, and he had discipline, and he had guts. The smarts made him and Gerry path-breaking researchers. The discipline made their research incontrovertible, and the guts helped him weather the response, all too common, from American industry when faced with inconvenient truths: to lie, to bully, to disparage. Well, that behavior did not defeat David. His work stands. As I said, I won’t speak long. I will instead ask unanimous consent that three obituaries be printed in the Congressional Record appended to these remarks. One is his obituary in The Lancet, the distinguished medical publication. The second is a reminiscence by his professional peer Bruce Lanphear. And the last is a Substack reminiscence by his daughter Molly. David was a special man. He did special work. I was proud to have worked with him. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: How Rosner and Markowitz Revealed the Hidden Architecture of Disease”