Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, our waterways and our waters are precious resources, and we need to advance policies that protect that precious resource and certainly need policies that enable us to be resourceful in the use of this commodity. In my youth, growing up in my home and hometown of Amsterdam, New York, if you wanted to know what color the Mohawk Carpet Mills were dying their carpets that day, all you had to do was look at the flow of the Chuctanunda Creek as it emptied into the Mohawk River. With the passage of the Clean Water Act, Congress took historic action to protect public health and improve the quality of drinking water across our great country. Our rivers, our brooks, and our streams are the center of our communities, and we have come so far to protect and strengthen these resources for the generations that will follow. Instead of strengthening our waterways, this bill that we are debating today on the House floor is a wholesale attack on what is left of the Clean Water Act.”