Bob Barr: “yesterday we had the administration officially come forward with its national ambient air quality standards, otherwise…”

“yesterday we had the administration officially come forward with its national ambient air quality standards, otherwise known as BAQS, bogus air quality standards. Mr. Speaker, the administration tells us this is to save the children. But, Mr. Speaker, what do you tell the child whose family cannot afford a home because the so-called new air standards put the cost of those new homes beyond their family's means? What do you tell the child whose father is out of work because these so-called new air standards shut down his business? What do you tell the community that cannot build a new hospital because these new so-called standards cannot be met? Mr. Speaker, America's children do not need weird science. They need homes, parents with jobs, new schools, new hospitals, all which would become endangered species if these so-called new standards are allowed to go into effect.”