06/15/2009
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"This bill allows those same oil companies to prepare their own environmental reviews."
"What we don't need is permitting reform that guts and takes away the protections that NEPA gives to communities like mine."
"It feels a little like deja vu. A few weeks ago, we sat in this room while my colleagues across the aisle spent hours scapegoating our environmental review processes."
"All told, our committee has passed scores of bills out of the House, and 149 passed Senate and became law--149."