Jerry McNerney actually said...

It continually amazes me that our friends on the other side of the aisle think of the EPA as the devil because before the EPA came along, we had the Love Canal, we had the Cuyahoga River catching on fire, and look, China doesn't have an EPA. Would you rather live in Beijing and breathe that air?

Context

McNerney defends the EPA's role in preventing environmental disasters.

04/11/2013

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