Jon Fox said "The fact of the matter is every Member of this Congress, Mr. Chairman, wants to make sure we have clean drinking water, and the fact is we have strong clean drinking water laws in the United States that all of us want to see protected. The fact also is that the American citizens do not want us to continue putting onto the States and local governments mandates of great things that we want to do without paying for it. All we are saying, under this new law that is being proposed, is if we are going to have stronger drinking laws that require funding, and some of them do not, we want to make sure that we come back to the Congress and vote on them so the States and localities will not have it passed on to their backs." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordJanuary 20, 1995

The fact of the matter is every Member of this Congress, Mr. Chairman, wants to make sure we have clean drinking water, and the fact is we have strong clean drinking water laws in the United States that all of us want to see protected. The fact also is that the American citizens do not want us to continue putting onto the States and local governments mandates of great things that we want to do without paying for it. All we are saying, under this new law that is being proposed, is if we are going to have stronger drinking laws that require funding, and some of them do not, we want to make sure that we come back to the Congress and vote on them so the States and localities will not have it passed on to their backs.

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Jon Fox

Republican · Pennsylvania

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Editor's note · Context

Discussing the importance of clean drinking water laws and funding responsibilities for states and local governments.

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