Eleanor Holmes Norton: “Part of the problem is, perhaps, that EPA has never requested this particular advice from CASAC. My amendment would make…”

“Part of the problem is, perhaps, that EPA has never requested this particular advice from CASAC. My amendment would make it clear that Congress wants the EPA to do so. Yes, I made clear that there had been improvements in air quality, despite the fact that our own industry, our own economic growth has tripled. Would anybody say that we are now where we want to be? We do not want, at this point of progress, to countermand the progress we have made. We should be building on that progress. No one, I think, in the world today--and certainly in the United States--would say we have finally reached where we want to be. The improvements are not nearly enough. We need to go much more rapidly. We certainly don't need to be retrograde at this point in history when the whole world now is looking at this very issue and seeking to improve. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.”