Political Quotes

“I hope we are able to. I appreciate the gentleman focusing on the fact that we have had a tremendous technological series of advances in this country, and it is time, first of all, to make sure that we do not lose control of some of those, and that we blaze a trail for the future. It is stunning to me that we have an opportunity to give a little nudge to some of the promising technologies, some of the fledgling enterprises, all across the country. And I know the gentleman has been visited by people from our own Pacific Northwest who are on the cutting edge of being able to give a little bit of a push, a little bit of incentive, to have the government step up and lead by example. Our Department of Defense, for instance. I had been talking earlier about my personal dismay that this administration is bent on somehow exempting the Department of Defense, the largest manager of infrastructure in the world, and, sadly, the source of some of the most serious pollution. Rather than encouraging, rather than giving the resources to clean up after themselves, they are talking about exempting from the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act. I know the gentleman from Washington has given thought to the notion of what will happen if we gave a little bit of the money we are giving now to the Department of Defense, almost $1 million a minute, if a little of that were devoted to making sure that we had the most energy-efficient military in the world.”