Political Quotes

“I rise in opposition to this amendment for a couple of reasons. Number one, because EPA has already comprehensively and exhaustively examined the health benefits cost and every other analysis relating to their regulations. We have voluminous information about those benefits. I would also say that we've heard testimony after testimony from experts who say that you cannot in any way with certainty say how many lives are going to be saved, how many people are not going to be put in the hospital, how many cases of asthma are going to be not contracted because of passing a regulation or not passing a regulation. They have models. They come up with estimates, and there's not anything in this amendment that would provide any more certainty. And for that reason, I oppose the amendment and ask that it be defeated. I yield back the balance of my time.”