Political Quotes

“I grew up 3 miles out of a small town in North Dakota, and our water was not fit to drink. We literally carried water to our town. This is the state of thousands and thousands of homes today. The happy news is that literally thousands and thousands of homes that did not have drinkable water now do have because of the reach of rural water systems and improvements in small town water systems that afford them drinkable water where they did not have drinkable water before. Mr. Speaker, the present law needs to be changed because it is threatening the viability of some of these rural water systems imposing too many one-size-fits-all requirements out of Washington, most notoriously the requirement that 25 new contaminants be identified to be tested for every single year, which is ludicrous, and not even having a requirement that that be related to the public health concerns of the area. This is a bad law and needs to be changed. The bill before us makes positive changes. Specifically, the new revolving loan fund will help small communities fund improvements, huge improvements.”