Political Quotes

“If you listen to my Democrat colleagues, you would think the EPA could not go on without this funding that we are trying to reduce. It is about being efficient. This administration, as I had said earlier, under President Trump, emissions have fallen in every major category and overall have dropped 7 percent since 2017. Right now, we have the cleanest air since 1970. Throwing money at an issue you care about is not the solution. Being efficient in government is the solution, and that is what the Trump EPA has done. {time} 1930 So they have asked for this particular amount of money, and I am making sure that we are giving the EPA what they need, not busting the spending caps which were agreed to by Republicans and Democrats by their current proposal. Let's keep the spending caps. Let's adopt my amendment. Madam Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time. Ms. McCOLLUM. Madam Speaker, I will read from the National Geographic, published April 8, 2020: ``As the novel coronavirus tears around the world, it's exploiting our biggest weaknesses, from creaking health care systems to extreme social inequality. Its relationship with one pervasive and neglected problem, however, has been more tangled: Air pollution has intensified the pandemic. . . .'' So we need to do studies on that, and the EPA works on that, but at the same time, the coronavirus has temporarily cleaned the skies.…”