Ron Klink: “The gentleman is right and I am glad the direction that he is going with that. Because as he mentioned, Administrator…”

“The gentleman is right and I am glad the direction that he is going with that. Because as he mentioned, Administrator Browner kept saying she has to base this not on economics but strictly on what is best for the health of the people. There are a lot of different things that create good or bad health conditions. When industry was crashing down around our ears in the Northeast and in the Midwestern United States people suffered a loss of jobs, a loss of health care benefits, there was increased domestic violence, higher crime rates in our community, higher suicide rates as people's lives fell apart, the social fabric of our community fell apart. If you do not have money in your pocket because you did not have a job and you did not have health care benefits, then your wife if she were pregnant could not go see a doctor for prenatal examination, your young children could not go see a doctor. Many times other people who were dependent on you, you yourself did not get to see a doctor. What was the adverse health impact? That will be seen again if we have the kind of loss of job production that we think we are going to see from this and all evidence we are going to have from this. But beyond that, the administrator says the air will still get cleaner. The Clean Air Act is working. People's health will continue to improve. So you cannot have it both ways.”