Political Quotes

“Obviously, I cannot speak for my colleagues. I cannot. But I have to look at what would happen if this were to become law. EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, signed into law by Richard Nixon, a Republican, overwhelmingly--and, by the way, the Clean Air Act amendments were signed into law by George Herbert Walker Bush--they would say to the EPA: You are out. You no longer have the ability to do your job, which is laid out in the Clean Air Act. This particular amendment changes the Clean Air Act and says--I say to my friend--to the EPA: You no longer can look at carbon pollution. You cannot look at any pollution at all that relates to the climate change issue. In doing so, they are in a frontal assault against the American Lung Association, the American Public Health Association, the American Thoracic Society, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, Physicians for Social Responsibility, and Trust for America's Health. But I say to my friend, even more than that, they are going against the American people. I wished to share this poll with the Senator. In February, 1 month ago--truly 1 month ago--there was a bipartisan poll. A Republican pollster and a Democratic pollster teamed up, and they asked the people what they thought about these very issues. Sixty- nine percent of the American people--this is not people in Washington State or California; this is all over the country--think EPA should update the Clean Air Act standards with stricter air pollution limits.…”