Political Quotes

“I know that they have spent tens of millions of dollars modernizing and cleaning the air of that facility. I have got small specialty steel companies and small chemical manufacturers in my district that have spent anywhere from $40 million since 1990, since the Clean Air Act amendments, to 160, 170 million per plant to clean the air. So the gentleman is right, that is what the President and EPA are doing right now. They are saying, ``After you spent these tens of millions of dollars or hundreds of millions of dollars cleaning the air, it is working, forget about it. Now we are changing the rules. We are changing the standards.'' And do we have the science? No. Have we done the toxicological studies? No. Have we done all the other studies? Do we know what we are really doing? No. I would say to the gentleman from Pennsylvania, we went through it with EPA where they were forcing us to go to centralized emission testing for the cars. And the Federal Government EPA cost the State of Pennsylvania a $145 million court settlement that came out of the pockets of the taxpayers of Pennsylvania and did not clean up one speck of air.”