Brian Bilbray: “as an individual who had the pleasure of working on mass transit, but also on clean air strategy, it has always been a…”

“as an individual who had the pleasure of working on mass transit, but also on clean air strategy, it has always been a frustration for many of us in the environmental community to see while the Federal Government and government as a whole demands that the private sector leave dirty polluting technology behind and move towards cleaner technologies, the Federal Government itself continues to allows its money both directly and indirectly to be used in purchase of the polluting technologies that ruin our environment, are totally counter to our Federal clean air strategies. Now, let me say at this time, Mr. Chairman, that I greatly appreciate the work of the gentleman from Virginia (Chairman Wolf) in moving this issue forward and moving away from the old concept that pollution is okay if it is a government agency, and towards the new concept that government needs to participate in cleaning up our environment.”