George Miller: “the issue is whether my colleagues vote for or against the environment, whether they vote for or against the environment…”

“the issue is whether my colleagues vote for or against the environment, whether they vote for or against the environment on a consistent basis. There is nothing liberal or conservative about taking arsenic out of the drinking water of children. There is nothing liberal or conservative about taking dioxin, lead, and other cancer-causing agents out of the environment of the children. There is nothing liberal or conservative about keeping people from dumping pollution into our oceans, about dumping sewage into our oceans that comes back to haunt the people who want to use the beaches, the wetlands, and the recreational area. This is not about liberal or conservatism. This is about people's voting records who, on the day after Earth Day, under the direction of the majority leader, want to present a theme to America that somehow the Republicans are back on the environment. The fact is for 16 months our colleagues have led the most comprehensive assault on the basic environmental laws of this country, and we think there is a certain amount of hypocrisy in that, and we are seeking to point that out. And it has nothing to do with ideology.”