Political Quotes

“as I have in the past several weeks, I come to the floor of the House again asking my colleagues to give some consideration to becoming cosponsors to a bill that I have done with the gentleman from Michigan [Mr. Upton], a Republican from Michigan, and the gentleman from Virginia [Mr. Boucher], a Democrat. It is a bipartisan effort to try to say to the Environmental Protection Agency that we in the United States of America, we the people, are working toward cleaning up our air. We have done a tremendous job of cleaning up the air of this Nation. Industries have spent hundreds of millions of dollars. Workers have done their part. Automobile owners have done their part. We have gone to catalytic converters and unleaded gasoline. I will tell my colleagues, coming from southwestern Pennsylvania in an area that was once referred to as ``hell with the lid off'' that we in fact have made tremendous strides in cleaning the air and even according to Carol Browner, Director of the EPA, we will continue to do that. But now comes the Director of the EPA and now comes the President of the United States refusing to talk to those of us who are from their own party, the Democratic Party, refusing to even acknowledge our letters when we say to them that you are threatening the very livelihood of the people of our district. You are threatening the economic revitalization that has been decades in coming by changing the target at the midway point in the race.”