Political Quotes

“I would be grateful if the Senator would provide an interpretation of the assurance contained in the letter dated July 23, 1996, addressed to you and me from the U.S. Trade Representative and the Administrator of EPA. I will submit the text of the letter for the Record. The letter states that compliance with the WTO decision "will not result in the degradation of gasoline quality required by the Clean Air Act with respect to imported conventional and reformulated gasoline." I understand that the EPA proposed in 1994 a foreign refiner baseline rule that could have allowed foreign oil companies to export gasoline to the United States with higher levels of sulfur and olefins than allowed under existing rules. However, the letter we recently received provides assurances that the WTO compliance process will not allow foreign refiners to supply gasoline with higher levels of precursors of ozone pollution than are currently allowed.”