Scott Perry: “My colleague says that it costs mere pennies. These mere pennies add up to mere dollars. These mere dollars add up to…”

“My colleague says that it costs mere pennies. These mere pennies add up to mere dollars. These mere dollars add up to thousands, eventually millions and eventually billions, which is where we are right now. It talks about return on investments. It talks about it but it doesn't say what the return on investment is, because there isn't any return on investment. It provides immense value, it is claimed. Yet, the value cannot be described. It cannot be quantified. No one knows what the value is. Will the Delaware River Basin go away if the Commission were not there? Are you saying without the Commission there would be no safe drinking water? The actions that this commission has taken are unfounded, unjustified, and are happening nowhere else. Yet, there is clean drinking water across the rest of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania without this commission banning public and private activity. My colleague says it is necessary funding. Necessary for what? What are we getting for this? Somebody is getting something, but the people of Pennsylvania, they are getting the shaft. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.”