Political Quotes

“Mr. President, the Senate has, actually, already considered Bill Wehrum to be the Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation at the Environmental Protection Agency, who is the person in charge of the rules to administer the Clean Air Act at the EPA. This person has already been considered, and the Senate decided that he was not right for the job. Over 10 years ago, President Bush nominated Mr. Wehrum to head the Office of Air and Radiation at the EPA. He was rejected because his 6- year record as an employee at the EPA told the Senators all that they needed to know. As the ranking member, Jim Jeffords, put it at the time: ``Mr. Wehrum's disdain for the Clean Air Act is alarming.'' If you disagree with the foundational Federal law that we use to keep our air clean, then it is hard to believe that you can competently lead the EPA's efforts when it comes to protecting our right to clean air. A decade later, nothing has changed. Mr. Wehrum has done nothing that should change our minds about his ability to lead the EPA. This, of course, is part of a pattern. This administration continues to nominate anti-science, pro-pollution, climate-denying people to lead the U.S. agencies that are in charge of science and climate. Scott Pruitt has denied a century's worth of established science and basic facts that say that climate change is real, urgent, and caused by humans. He now leads the No. 1 Federal Agency that is charged with working on climate change.…”