Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to support California's right to clean air. Growing up in southern California in the 1980s, smog alerts were a regular part of life. A lap around the track at school and your chest would burn. We can't go back to those days. When President Richard Nixon signed the Federal Clean Air Act in 1970, California, under Governor Ronald Reagan, was given a waiver, letting us set stricter air pollution rules than the Federal Government. Over the years, Republican and Democratic leaders alike, from Governors Reagan to Jerry Brown to Arnold Schwarzenegger, stood together to protect California's right to clean up our air. Now House Republicans are trying to strip away California's ability to set our own air pollution standards. So much for State's rights. After all the progress we have made, they want to turn back the clock and do the bidding of the big polluters. Clean air is not a partisan issue. It is a public health issue, and I will never stop fighting to protect it. ____________________”