Paul Tonko: “The actual work of replacing the lead service lines will be an employment generator.”

Mr. Tonko's bill would create a new program specifically for what it defines as the New York-New Jersey Watershed.

This is a very emotional journey, and in the words of Jennifer Wexton, this could happen to anyone, so any one of us could be touched by the impact of this legislation that will deliver efforts to search for better diagnoses, sounder…

I believe that leaves the individual of focus this evening, the chairwoman of the Energy and Commerce Committee. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Washington (Mrs. Rodgers).

They say, ‘Well, she’s the future of the party.’ I say, ‘She’s the today of the party,’