Political Quotes

“Following up on what the gentleman said, he mentioned that all of us, and this by the way I will mention just because both of us are from southwestern Pennsylvania, this is not a Pennsylvania issue, this is a New Mexico issue, it is a California issue, it is a Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, New York, all the States across this Nation will be impacted. We just both happen to be here at this late hour, both of us coming from southwestern Pennsylvania. Our region is not the only one that is going to be impacted. Our whole Nation is going to be impacted. The health of our whole Nation is going to be impacted by this decision. Indeed, the adverse effect to the wealth and the growth of industry of our Nation is going to be adversely impacted. This is not just a Pennsylvania issue. But as the gentleman mentioned earlier, we grew up in southwestern Pennsylvania when people used to go out and brush the dust off their lawn, when there were certain days, and we kind of laugh about it now, but you would hang your laundry out, then you would kind of shake the dust off the laundry at the end of the day because of course the particulate matter would come floating down over your laundry as it hung outside. The air was dirty. People got sick. But as we have cleaned the air in southwestern Pennsylvania and other places across this Nation, in fact, they had the same experience in London back in the 1950s, the incidence of asthma has increased. Why is that? We do not know.…”