Political Quotes

“If I could make one last point, then turn it back to my colleague from Maine. Just following up on that, in that session that the gentleman from Maine chaired, we were joined by a friend of ours from Great Britain, a member of parliament, Tony Coleman, who pointed out that in Great Britain in the 1990s, they made the transition from dirty coal-fired power plants to cleaner gas power plants to generate electricity. We in the United States, if we, instead of as the administration is suggesting, undercutting the new source review and dealing with the requirement of our own Clean Air Act for these dirty power plants that are having a devastating effect on my colleague's State, amongst others, we would just deal with the spirit and the letter of the law, clean up those power plants, we would reduce our emissions to the level that we had in 1990 and be well on our way to meeting the Kyoto protocols.”