Political Quotes

“I will not read the whole thing. Let's just read the concluding paragraph: Now, therefore, be it resolved that the U.S. Conference of Mayors strongly supports the EPA's issued Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for Power Plants. There were no Federal standards for mercury until now for our powerplants. You would think we should have done this by now but--yes, we should have done it by now but at least we are here. At least we will achieve the benefits of $1 in cost for $3 to $9 in savings and in benefits to Americans. We should be celebrating this sensible and yet significant public health achievement. Instead, we are engaged in a debate that I think is confounded, on their side--their arguments are confounded by the actual facts. The benefits are staggering, in addition to the 11,000 lives saved, 4,700 fewer heart attacks, 130,000 fewer cases of children suffering asthma attacks, 5,700 fewer emergency visits each year. Let me close by mentioning one specific. Mercury is a neurotoxin. The reason that people use the phrase ``mad as a hatter'' is because hatters, making hats, used mercury and mercury poisoned them, made them mad, affected their brains. It is a neurotoxin. That affects Rhode Island quite considerably. First of all, we are a State that is downwind.…”