Kirsten Gillibrand actually said...

"At a time when pictures of smog-filled foreign capitals are making front pages around the world, the United States should be taking the lead on the issue of air quality."

"I believe it is an urgent public health challenge and we have to take it very seriously."

"I find it especially disturbing that more than 35.6 million children under 18 right here in the United States live in counties that have poor air quality."

"This implication is that somehow we can't have both a clean environment and a healthy economy. This is something I strongly disagree with."