Political Quotes

“I have in front of me the bill, and it says, whatever regulations the EPA is proposing--and it's taken them a decade to finally come up with these regulations--it'll be null and void. It will have no force of action. It will be treated as though such rule had never taken effect. And then it's going to be replaced. Now, how is it going to be replaced? Well, it says we're not going to let them replace this rule for 5 years. Well, during this period of time, people are still being exposed to these toxic pollutants. So it says, not earlier--they'll establish compliance and they'll establish new regulations, but nobody has to do anything for 5 years. But then it doesn't say at any time about when you have to actually come into compliance, which, of course, in existing law is set in place. That's repealed. And then it goes on to say they're going to have to meet a different standard. The standard that's in the law is going to be replaced by some other standard that basically waters it all down. {time} 1340 The standard in the law, by the way, is the maximum achievable control technology. That means technology that already achieves reductions. But that will be wiped out. They'll have a new standard. It can't be pursuant to the regulation; the regulation can't come out for 5 years; we don't know when it would ever be complied with; and it would be based on a different standard. That is not simple. That is in effect saying nothing is going to be done.…”