Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I thank the ranking member, Ms. Granger from Texas. I have three amendments included in this en bloc amendment. The first one prohibits any funds in the State and Foreign Ops Division from being provided to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, UNRWA. In 2018, President Trump made the correct decision to defund UNRWA. Unfortunately, this bill seeks to reverse course and provide funding to this organization. I remind everybody, this organization, rather than pursuing its mission, chooses to foster and promote and anti-Semitism and violence against Israelis. In spite of repeated demands by the U.S., UNRWA continues this kind of abhorrent behavior. The second amendment prohibits the EPA from using funds in this bill to take retaliatory actions against States that fall short of the EPA- mandated Chesapeake Bay TMDL. In 2010, the EPA seized the States' authority to determine their own method of compliance and threatened to take over the water quality plans if the States failed to comply. These coercive measures have been tried and have failed. Water quality has not improved since the federalization of the Bay clean-up efforts. Preventing EPA from taking retaliatory action is imperative to the success of these efforts. The final one prohibits the EPA from using funds pursuant to Section 115 of the Clean Air Act.…”