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On the recordJune 5, 1997
I will not stand idly by and watch the same kind of degradation to our industrial base that I watched during the 1970's and 1980's. I know that the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Dingell] likewise will not watch that in his State of Michigan or anywhere else in this country. Yet we have not heard from the administration. So now we have prepared a piece of legislation. I am hoping, and we have gotten a great start, it is going to be a bipartisan bill. We are working with our friends on the Republican side to say, ``Don't change the standards. We're cleaning the air.…
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Ron Klink
Democratic · Pennsylvania
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Addressing the need for bipartisan legislation on environmental standards and industrial degradation.

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