Political Quotes

“I am glad to come here and support this bipartisan bill. It has been crafted with strong support from both parties throughout the process. I am a little saddened to see the tenure of the debate today because of the issues that have been raised, but let me talk about why this bill is so important for us to move forward. Many of my colleagues know I come from a rural State and, like many of the environmental mandates imposed on our States, the original Safe Drinking Water Act was crafted without the careful consideration of the ramifications that cookie-cutter solutions imposed by Washington will have on the States, the counties and cities across our country. Idaho is home to about a million people, and of the 2,700 water systems in my State, all but 12 have less than 10,000 users. Again and again and again across our State people have asked me to let us use the kinds of scientifically based solutions that will make our drinking water clean without forcing us to spend so much money on the cookie-cutter solutions that do not work. This bill does that. This bill makes it so that no longer will the EPA be forced to regulate from Washington in a way that does not make sense. We will not have to continue to look for contaminants that do not exist on our water, and we can focus on the things that will work.”