Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, first of all by defeating this amendment, we do not affect in any way the current law and current regulations affecting lead paint or asbestos. Those regulations, those rules, stay intact. This amendment does not even prohibit this House or this Congress from affecting future mandates and future laws governing these areas as well. We maintain that flexibility. All we do is we get those costs in front of us before we act, so that we can understand what the true costs of the regulations are going to be before we send the bills down to our State and local governments who are going to have to carry them out. Let me give a couple of examples of how sometimes the best intentions from this body end up having the opposite effect that we intend by the time they filter down to the State and local governments who we are supposedly trying to work with and help. On asbestos removal we had a project over in my county and it cost the county $7 million in renovations of an old school because of the asbestos removal, that we had originally hoped to put up as a senior citizens activity center and a home for the elderly.”