Nancy Pelosi: “I especially want to thank him for his great leadership on protecting the environment. It is an issue about conservation…”

“I especially want to thank him for his great leadership on protecting the environment. It is an issue about conservation and it is an issue about health. His championship of the livable communities initiative is one that will serve our children well, and their children and their children. It is about the future. That is what elections are about, especially presidential elections. So I was very disappointed to hear last night that Governor Bush was offering old suggestions, last century proposals, to challenges that we have into this new millennium. Livable communities, those are two words that the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Blumenauer) has championed. Community, that is what America is about: where we live, how we educate our children, where we go to work, how we get there, the air we breath, the water we drink, how we take care of our families in a community. Described by the word 'livable,' what could be more basic and more commonsensical than that? Vice President Gore, along with House and Senate Democrats, favor long-term solutions about our livable communities. They propose solutions which reduce our reliance on imported oil and ensure a cleaner environment by supporting investments in renewable energy and energy efficiencies.”