Barbara Boxer actually said...

"Well, let's just set aside for a minute any kind of prejudices on who should act."

"I believe that in the 1996 law, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the rewrite of the Water Act, what Congress wanted to happen was for the EPA to begin to move on these emerging contaminants."

"I also find it disturbing that not one emerging contaminant has been regulated since 1996."

"I think that the arguments you raised are absolutely appropriate. But I honestly think we have answers to them."