Political Quotes

“if anyone has any question about where the money is on this issue, where the big lobbyists stand, all we need to do is walk out this set of doors to my right prior to the next vote being called and you will find a sea of lobbyists. This is one of the heaviest lobbying jobs we have ever seen. There are always promises about this bill, through the various incarnations of the legislation, that it is going to get better. Mr. President, 1271 was introduced. They said it was not quite good enough and tried to make it better. Thereafter, 1936 was introduced and they said it was a better bill. Now we have a number of substitutes that allegedly will make it better. None of them make it better. I have been a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee my entire time in the Senate. I love working on that committee. I have served as chairman of the subcommittee that dealt with chemicals and pesticides. We held significant hearings on a drug called Alar, put on apples, grapes, cherries, to prolong their lifetime. It was poisonous. It made people sick, we believed, and is no longer used. We had hearings on lawn chemicals, fungicides. Mr. President, I am, almost for lack of a better word, offended by someone saying that this amendment will ease the environmental laws. The environmental laws are preempted. They take away all the Federal laws, laws we have worked on.”