Political Quotes

“I want to thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, here we go again with the Republicans spewing their shamelessly empty rhetoric concerning jobs. Jobs for the American people might be on their minds, jobs for the American people might be in their mouths, but jobs for the American people are not in their hearts. Mr. Chairman, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are arguing that we need to weaken our environmental laws to create jobs. That's incredibly shortsighted. Do we really want to say to the American people that they must suffer contaminated groundwater, drink dirty water? Is that what we are saying? A study from Tufts University shows just the opposite. It's not a fight between jobs and clean environment, clean water, clean drinking water. The Tufts study says that we can create tens of thousands of new jobs by requiring safe disposal of coal ash. Ensuring that coal ash disposal sites protect human health and the environment will take work, will create jobs. It will take construction workers, equipment operators, and engineers to do this work. Let me add that this is not just makeshift work. These jobs will provide tremendous benefits to the communities in which they take place. But these jobs won't happen if we pass this atrocious bill. This bill simply preserves the status quo and keeps Americans out of work. Mr.…”