Political Quotes

“The other question is, what does the word ``supplement'' mean? It has to have some meaning. For instance, if you could not issue a regulation to enforce the double hulled tanker law--for instance, we passed a double hulled tanker law. A lot of people thought it was actually a bad mistake in terms of cost-benefit, but we passed it. Now, the agency comes along and the agency is supposed to implement that in terms of the time of implementation, and so forth. It goes through this bill. It cannot implement it. It cannot because it does not pass the cost-benefit test. Now, there is an argument--there is an argument which has been raised that the Senator from Louisiana, I would hope, would want to address. He recognized very forthrightly to the Senator from Delaware what happens when you go through all the cost-benefit analysis, the risk assessment. It does not make any sense to have a double hulled tanker rule, but that is the law. The Senator from Louisiana says the law governs. The double hulled tanker law governs, period. Then it seems to me that the concerns which have been raised by so many Members here and so many of the administration that we ought to say it clearly should be addressed. We ought to say it clearly.”