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Patricia Schroeder: I rise to say to Americans who believe that progress is preordained in this country, "Wake up." Because today we are…

On the recordMay 10, 1995
I rise to say to Americans who believe that progress is preordained in this country, "Wake up." Because today we are going backwards. Today we are on a real slippery slope, and for people who thought we would always be able to have clean water in America, that is one of the things we have been very proud of, you can turn on a tap, and rely on it. Guess what, today we are saying, "Well, no more. We just do not want to push the polluters, it costs them too much to deal with the pollution." And so let me say in the next breath, for those who are looking for growth stocks today, I say buy bottled water stocks, because the real message is we do not want the polluters to have to clean up. We are going to have the people who use the water have to go buy bottled water or whatever in the future. This is not the America or the Federal Government that I knew, and I must say I find it a very sad day.
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Patricia Schroeder
Colorado

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Addressing concerns about environmental regulations and clean water during a floor speech.

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