Political Quotes

“This is a magnificent solution to a nonexistent problem. But it's made a lot of money for a lot of lobbyists, and a lot of industrial polluters are going to enjoy this, hiding behind the supposed benefit that it's going to give to the farmers. In a nutshell, this legislation is not going to help the farmers; it's going to help the people who farm the farmers. And the end result is that, when this nonsensical bill gets over to the courts, the courts are going to look at it and say, Just what, in the name of common sense, is the House trying to do with this legislation? Nowhere in the Clean Air Act is a word about nuisance dust, but it's very prominently put here in the legislation. And lo and behold, it also has something do, supposedly, with some kind of action that the EPA is supposed to take. But diligent looking at the legislation doesn't reveal what that might be. The question here, then, is: We have a solution in search of a problem. We've got a job crisis in our Nation, crippling debt, excessive deficit, and the gaping inequality between the poor and the well-to-do is putting democracy at risk. And when this country needs us to focus on serious problems like deficit and national debt, we are here busily scratching around to try and fit a solution on a problem that doesn't exist.…”