Political Quotes

“Government, business, and industry in our country spent approximately $115 billion for pollution control in 1990, and it is estimated that the figure will increase to $185 billion per year--that is 2.3 percent of our gross national product--by the year 2000. EPA continues to implement, I think, overly burdensome regulations while the Government continues to talk about creating jobs. The tragedy is aggravated by the fact that we often know so little about the benefits of regulation. Regulations often are based upon inadequate scientific analysis or fail to assess the minuscule risks being addressed compared to the enormous costs of reducing risks. I do not know how many of you saw a Washington Post article, I think it was yesterday. It covered a statement by the EPA. One of the EPA water quality rules allows arsenic levels no more than 2 or 3 parts per billion.”