Political Quotes

“following the beginning of what I think is this grand strategy to prevent the public from working their will through the national Congress, in the 1980's the Congress passed another water mandate. This one was the Safe Drinking Water Act, every bit as much of a mandate as was the earlier Clean Water Act. Regulation after regulation, as with the Clean Water Act, followed the Safe Drinking Water Act. It was a mandate, ironclad, copper-riveted, placed on the localities and the States and the industry, but there was one difference. It was now in the 1980's, and the new grand strategy to make the Federal Government infantile was in place. The Congress of the United States, because of the emptying of the Treasury, did not pass a penny in the initial goal, not a penny to help the localities carry out the Safe Drinking Water Act. That damaged my State of Montana and my communities out there in a terrible way. I would ask the Members, have they heard complaints about the Safe Drinking Water Act? Absolutely, because this Congress did not have the will to pay for it.”