Ed Markey actually said...

"There was a defunding of the taxes that the oil companies and the chemical companies had to pay into Superfund."

"But that very same report estimates the benefits of regulations to be between $68 billion and $103 billion per year."

"Does anyone disagree that providing safe drinking water to everyone is an essential service that we must provide to every American?"

"EPA has played a critical role in cleaning up our environment over the last number of decades."