Rob Portman: “No. It does not affect the Clean Air Act. It does not affect the Clean Water Act. Now, if those bills come up for…”

“No. It does not affect the Clean Air Act. It does not affect the Clean Water Act. Now, if those bills come up for reauthorization or there are new mandates attached to them, absolutely, it applies to that. The whole idea is we have got a critically, critically ill patient on our hands. There is a crisis out there. The first thing we do in an emergency room is stop the hemorrhaging, and that is what we are doing here, we are trying to stop the practice, to get Washington to get serious about this, and for the first time ever today we passed a bill to force Washington to do that. It was a historic day. It was part of our contract. It is us keeping our promise. It involved a lot of hard work. We have got to work with the Senate to come up with a compromise between the House and the Senate version, and we will be able to do that as we work with the Senate on this bill.”