Political Quotes

“I am here to back the nomination of Lee Zeldin of New York to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, so my vote will be yes in a few hours from now when we vote on that nomination. The EPA plays a very important regulatory role in the United States. Not only does it regulate pollution, like many Americans already know, but it also regulates many areas that impact Americans every day. As many farmers in Iowa know, the previous administration's EPA put out a regulation that would overregulate what we know in this town as waters of the United States or, as the leader just put it, WOTUS. This would have regulated 96 percent of the land in the State of Iowa, and that would subject that land to Federal water regulations. It would almost be impossible to do regular farming operations without wondering whether you were violating some regulation. That is what the leader just said. This regulation is not common sense. The EPA also oversees issues critical to agriculture, such as the approval and labeling of pesticides and other important tools for farmers. The EPA also oversees the renewable fuel standard and protects its integrity. The renewable fuel standard provides an important framework for biofuels, which benefits farmers by sustaining an additional market for their commodities. Besides, biofuels, or in Iowa because we are No.…”