Political Quotes

“the amendment is acceptable on this side. My understanding of the amendment, and I would like perhaps confirmation of this from my friend from Utah, is that this amendment gets into the problems that have been created for the bottled water industry by the delay in getting the rules which they are waiting for accepted and promulgated. If my understanding is correct, this is an instance where it is the business community that wants the rule. Sometimes we think it is the business community alone that is bothered by burdensome regulations. There have been too many instances where there have been burdensome regulations. There has also been many instances where there were critically necessary regulations, and the struggle we are going through is to try to come up with reform which will leave in place the essential process to protect our health and safety. But my understanding of this amendment is that in the case of the bottled water industry, we have an industry which has been waiting for regulation, asking for regulation in order to stop people from representing on bottled water that it, for instance, might be spring water if it is just tap water. We need, we are told by the bottled water industry, the agency to act, and the delay in this is actually hurting an industry.”