Political Quotes

“I thank my great colleague from the Virgin Islands for the great introduction. I really appreciate her leadership, and my colleague from Texas' leadership. This discussion that we have been having is relating to the President's 100 days. And I think it is 102 at this particular point. The question that I and members of the Congressional Black Caucus have constantly been raising is: What do we have to lose with President Trump's cuts to the EPA? As I always said: What don't we have to lose? We have a lot to lose. In the time that I met with the organization in my community--a number of organizations--called Mothers for Clean Air, they were extremely concerned about the cuts to the EPA. The President's budget cuts $2.6 billion from the EPA budget. They were concerned about the impact that that would have. As a matter of fact, I talked to a mother who talked about her twins and what kind of effect that would have. The President wants to cut programs like Pollution Prevention Programs, Lead Risk Reduction Programs--which has been a problem in the case of the city of Philadelphia, a problem that we thought we dealt with, but with a cut on the lead reduction program, that would just reinforce the program--the Water Quality Research Programs, and the Environmental Education Programs. Who do you want to help when you cut 31 percent of the EPA budget? No one.…”