George Miller: “just as we do not allow families or members of families to be dysfunctional, we cannot allow cities, States and counties…”

“just as we do not allow families or members of families to be dysfunctional, we cannot allow cities, States and counties to choose not to do what is socially responsible for the good of the people of this Nation. We have had these basic fights. We have had the people of New England fight against the people in the Ohio Valley about scrubbers on coal plants and obligations and fuels to be burned. We have had the struggles between the automobile companies and the manufacturers of gasoline in cities, and in the city of Denver the gentlewoman has been through this. Why do we do this? Because it is our social responsibility. I thank the gentlewoman for raising this point.”