Political Quotes

“yesterday I was here on the floor and I shared with my colleagues news about work that Senator Voinovich and I and others have done to reduce the diesel emissions that come from the approximately 11 million diesel engines across the country, causing tens of thousands of premature deaths from asthma and cancer and other diseases because of those emissions. I talked about how a number of us working together, Democrats and Republicans, in the Senate and in the House, cobbled together legislation that would have a positive affect in reducing the health threats from these emissions. Today we bring up for consideration another piece of legislation. It is not designed to save lives, but it is designed to make the quality of life better for people in this country, to make sure people who might otherwise not have a decent place to live, might lose their home in which they now live, or they might have a chance to retain that home, or maybe to obtain a home they never otherwise would have had. One of the things I like especially about this legislation is it was developed in the same bipartisan way that Senator Voinovich and I worked on the Diesel Emission Reductions Act.”