Meghan Clyne pokes some good-natured fun at my bill to add a bittering agent to auto coolant (“Keystone Congress: Lawmakers’ Silly Priorities,” Post Opinion, April 6).

She chides that I’m “on a crusade to prevent us from drinking anti-freeze.”

The sad truth is that the pretty, pastel-colored, sweet-but-deadly liquid drips and puddles in your driveway where kids play and then put their fingers in their mouths, poison 1,400 children and 10,000 to 90,000 pets each year.

Anecdotally, there have been numerous murder trials where antifreeze, slipped into a mixed drink, was the weapon of choice. Not that “silly” a bill anymore, right Meghan?

Gary Ackerman

U.S. Representative

Queens