Political Quotes

“I would indeed point out that the complaints which my good friend has alluded to and which I agree with really are complaints about the Clinton-Gore administration for not enforcing the law and not being tough enough with their regulations. And indeed that is what we are trying to fix here. In fact, I hear so much about the pipeline industry being for this, if we really wanted to help the pipeline industry, we would bottle up this legislation and not pass anything so there would be weaker than the weak current legislation on the books. Instead, we provide what is clearly stronger legislation. Now, a year ago our good friends on the Committee on Commerce passed legislation on pipeline safety with virtually no substantive change in it and the very gentlemen, my good friends from the Committee on Commerce, who have taken the floor today to oppose this stronger legislation voted unanimously in favor of that weaker legislation which came out of their committee just a year ago. So this indeed is stronger legislation, not as strong as I would like it to be.”