Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I just want to say that if Mr. Barton's mother is up right now, she's up too late and she's watching C-SPAN; both of those things are probably not good for her. So we hope Mom is asleep at this time, as are most Members of Congress at this point, with the exception of the ones who are speaking on the floor of the House. This bill does increase funding from $1.4 billion to $1.8 billion between now and 2015. We ensure that there is more directed, laser-like focusing of where these resources go to get the maximum benefit. The bill includes my language to strengthen EPA's Endocrine Disrupter Screening Program. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals are the equivalent of computer viruses; over time they can severely disrupt the body's operating system. In fact, since the industrialized era, there has been a constant rise in the incidence of chronic diseases such as cancer, obesity, and diabetes, and the clues to what is causing that could very well be in the water which we drink. And so we really strengthen the program at EPA so that we find out what is in the drinking water, especially for children in our country, as their bodies are being formed. I would like to insert into the Record a revised cost estimate of the reported legislation done by the Congressional Budget Office, which corrects an earlier estimate that was inaccurate. Again, I thank Ms.…”