Political Quotes

“I appreciate my friend and colleague from Michigan. He has been very active on this issue for many years now, and I respect his intensity and his efforts. A couple of things, because a lot of the debate was initially just on the overall bill. It is the Senate that caused us not to enact all these provisions in the NDAA. That is why they are on record as not going to move this bill. We did have a chance for the Safe Drinking Water Act to be included in the final piece of legislation. That was blocked by someone, and now, here we are. The President has threatened to veto the act. You are correct about that. Mr. Kildee also raised the benefits of what we did do, and I listed them earlier, from the EPA to mandate that drinking water systems monitor for unregulated PFAS, provide grants to communities, require new reporting of PFAS under the Toxics Release Inventory program, require manufacturers and processors of PFAS to submit health and safety information--these are all law today--restrictions on new uses of long-change PFAS, guidance for appropriate destruction of per- or polyfluorinated compounds, require the Federal Government to work expeditiously with States to enter into binding cooperative agreements. That is particularly important for the gentleman's State, which was a success. Of course, I have many more.…”