Martin Heinrich: “I do. And I think it is worth noting that when we speak about the four Republican Administrators of the EPA, they have…”

“I do. And I think it is worth noting that when we speak about the four Republican Administrators of the EPA, they have all looked at the history of this argument and how it really reflects on a conversation we have had since the 1960s--and I think the Senator put it so eloquently--that it is not about jobs or quality of life; it has to be about both. Those Republican Administrators of the EPA have watched as the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act and the work done on the Montreal Protocol--all those debates were fundamentally identical to this one. People said that this was going to cost too much, that we were going to lose jobs if we made these decisions to clean up our environment. And what happened? If we look back at 1980 and today and the policy changes made, we have a GDP twice as big as what we had in 1980. We have doubled our country's economic output at the same time we have cleaned up our air and water and said we are going to have the cleanest country in the world. We are not going to be like China, where kids walking to school have to wear masks and can't play outside.…”