Political Quotes

“Thank you. I will use some time on our side until we have another speaker, which will probably about be 5 minutes. I know Senator Reid will want to have the floor. Mr. President, this is a very important vote that is coming up. I wish to put into perspective what we are talking about. In 1997--by my calculation, that is 14 years ago--several States went to the EPA and said their people were suffering because certain States were producing horrible pollution--toxic, dirty pollution--and it was floating right over to their States and then their States had to face the impact of that pollution, which was causing asthma attacks, heart attacks, cardiovascular problems, all sorts of problems and that their State, the recipient of the dirty air, was then expected to clean it up. I liken that to this: If you had toxic garbage in your house and went and dumped it on your neighbor's front lawn and said now it is your problem. That is not what we believe in America. We believe in responsibility. But the Paul amendment would say, no, we cannot ask those States that are producing pollution that is floating to other States and harming their people to do anything about it. That is what this rule is about. It is the cross-State air pollution rule. The pollution goes across one State into another. I believe 38 States would be adversely impacted if the Paul resolution were to pass. Let's look at this. I am not just being rhetorical. The scientists have looked at this.…”