Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I hope my colleagues will join me in voting for the motion to recommit. Mr. Chair, I include in the Record the text of the amendment. Ms. McDonald Rivet moves to recommit the bill H.R. 3898 to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure with instructions to report the same back to the House forthwith, with the following amendment: Page 40, after line 16, insert the following: SEC. __. PROHIBITION ON DEPRIVING RURAL, TRIBAL, AND ECONOMICALLY-DISADVANTAGED COMMUNITIES OF CLEAN WATER. The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of Engineers, and each State may not implement any amendment made by this Act that will result in-- (1) increasing the volume, toxicity, or concentration of pollutants in a waterbody that has been designated by a State or an Indian Tribe for-- (A) use supplying, or supporting the supply of, public water; or (B) recreation; (2) limiting the ability of the Administrator or a State to develop and implement a water quality standard, pretreatment requirement, or effluent limitation, solely on the basis of cost of compliance to the discharger; or (3) increasing the rates charged for wastewater treatment services (including in rural, Tribal, or economically disadvantaged communities) as a result of transferring the cost for removing any pollutants, or treating such waterbody, to prot…”