Political Quotes

“I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: After section 1, insert the following section (and redesignate the subsequent sections, and conform internal cross-references, accordingly): SEC. 2. FINDING. The Congress finds that Federal departments and agencies should support efforts to achieve the science-based, 10-year national objectives for improving the health of all Americans through reduced exposure to mercury that are established in Healthy People 2020 and were developed under the leadership of the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during two presidential administrations. At the end of the bill, add the following section: SEC. 7. REDUCING BLOOD-MERCURY CONCENTRATIONS. The provisions of this Act shall cease to be effective, and the rules specified in section 3(b) shall be revived and restored, if the Administrator finds, in consultation with the directors of the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that by allowing continued uncontrolled emissions of mercury from cement kilns this Act threatens to impede efforts to achieve the science- based, 10-year national objective for reducing mercury concentrations in children's blood that is established in Healthy People 2020. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from New Jersey is recognized for 5 minutes.”