Frank Pallone: “Mr. Speaker, it is abundantly clear that the list does not include any Federal Agency that deals with quality of life…”

“Mr. Speaker, it is abundantly clear that the list does not include any Federal Agency that deals with quality of life issues, whether it is the environment, whether it is safety, whether it is consumer protection. All those things are completely eliminated and they are not going to be funded, and the people are going to be sitting in their offices in the EPA and not doing a thing. Mr. Speaker, I know that it was said before that we are only going to deal with the issues that both sides can agree on, so I suppose that means that the Republican party, or at least the Republican leadership, does not care about the EPA; does not care about consumer protection; does not care about OSHA; does not care for a very simple reason, I believe, which is that basically the corporate interests here are going to have a field day. Mr. Speaker, the polluters are going to be out there polluting and the people in the corporations that do not want to take care of worker safety, they are not going to have to worry about it.”