Political Quotes

“I also wish to display the public health organizations that oppose the Murkowski resolution. We have to decide whom we want to listen to. Do we want to listen to big oil or politicians or do we want to listen to public health organizations that oppose the Murkowski resolution? I ask the American people to determine which side they are on--the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Children's Environmental Health Network, the American Nurses Association, the American Lung Association, the American Public Health Association, the National Association of County and City Health Officials, Trust for America's Health, Physicians for Social Responsibility, National Environmental Health Association, American College of Preventative Medicine, American Thoracic Society, the Association of Public Health Laboratories, the Association of Schools of Public Health, the Hepatitis Foundation International, the Union of Concerned Scientists. Again, we have included for the record the scientists, 1,800 of whom signed a letter to us opposing this. I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the Record a letter signed by these entities as well as a separate letter from the American Lung Association. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: February 23, 2010. U.S. Senate, Washington, DC.…”