Maurice Hinchey: “The economic circumstances that this Congress is attempting to deal with is probably the most serious and severe since…”

The growth is very, very slow, and the unemployment rate is still 9 percent.

If we can prevent pollution from occurring and dangers to the public health, we certainly ought to do that because we have huge examples for many centuries in this country where we haven't prevented the pollution and we end up having to…

I have deep concerns about some of the legacy policies put in place under the previous administration and which remain in effect today.

Thank you very much. I deeply appreciate it. The situation that we're dealing with here is critically important. It's harming huge numbers of people. What the Senate has done is an adequate solution to this problem. They've provided the…