Political Quotes

“We have been diligent. We have tried for weeks and weeks and weeks and months to get an estimate and cannot get it because they say there is no way they can make this estimate for various reasons. It may be that the EPA is going to determine a level after a public hearing, notice and comment, as to what an unsafe level of mercury is. And they are not willing to say in advance of a public hearing and comment what that unsafe level of mercury is. And the CBO comes back to us and says we cannot make this estimate. Why not allow them to say that in the intergovernmental side the way we allow them on the private side? We offered an amendment in committee to allow them to say it, allow them to be honest on the intergovernmental side the way we do on the private mandate. But that was defeated. So, I think it is a matter of just honesty, frankly, in legislating, to allow the CBO to say what we all know is true.”