Political Quotes

“My colleagues, we have a real opportunity here to do three things that are very important. One is we have an opportunity to right what is perhaps the worst environmental disaster in our Nation, and that is the continuing pollution and continuing salinization of this huge 360-square-mile body of water next to the Mexican border in southern California. It is fed by the New River and the Alamo River, and the New River is considered to be the most polluted river in North America coming north from Mexicali, traveling 50 miles through the California desert, and emptying into the Salton Sea. In going through Mexicali, it goes through the industrial area of Mexicali, takes a lot of waste. If one goes down there, it is somewhat like America was in parts of this country in the 1930s, literally with yellow toxins spewing out of pipes directly into the river; also, with the sewage system in Mexicali that is attached to that river. So we have an opportunity to right what is right now one of the most difficult environmental disasters we have ever had in this country.”