Political Quotes

“as this body meets today, the conferees are discussing the rescission bill a number of substantive changes in the Clean Air Act; first, to prevent EPA from imposing sanctions on States that violate the Clean Air Act, no matter how deliberate or egregious the violation; to eliminate the requirement that new highway projects funded with Federal monies must conform to the Clean Air Act by taking air quality considerations into account; and to eliminate the requirement that EPA give 100 percent credit to all State inspection and maintenance programs, no matter how deficient, how inadequate, or how patently empty those particular programs might be. These are amendments which eliminate EPA's sanction authority, and effectively makes the Clean Air Act voluntary. If a State wants to opt out of the act and allow limitless pollution in that State, it is allowed to do so. This is fundamentally inconsistent with the position that the Congress has taken time after time for so many years, that we need a national Clean Air Act to prevent and to protect our people against interstate pollution.”