Political Quotes

“Mr. President, will the Senator yield for a question? I don't know if the Senator is aware of this, but I do know Senators Whitehouse and Markey know this since they serve with me on the Environment and Public Works Committee. Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, the Republicans on the Environment and Public Works Committee are going to put forward two bills, and they expect to pass them. One would stop the President's Clean Power Plan in its tracks without putting in anything to replace it--as a matter of fact, putting up obstacles, as I understand it, to any other plan. So it would stop it in its tracks and set up huge obstacles for another rule. The other one would say that if you spray pesticides on bodies of water and the pesticides get into the water, that spraying should be exempted from the Clean Water Act. I mean, it pains me. It pains me to say that this is coming from the environment committee. Why don't they just rename it the ``anti- environment committee'' when they are in charge because every week, every day on the environment they go in the wrong direction for our children and our grandchildren. I know my friend has young children. I have young grandchildren. Isn't it a shame that at the moment in time when the Environment and Public Works Committee--they did a great job--we did a great job, all of us, on transportation. We had a 20-to-0 vote. We are so proud of it.…”