Political Quotes

“So we are here, Mr. President, making an important political judgment. We have the range of authority to deny totally flow control authority to anybody, including those communities which have already utilized it and, in reliance upon it, committed themselves to significant financial obligations. That is an alternative that is available to us. At the other end of the spectrum, we have the authority to grant a very broad license to local governments and States to utilize flow control. What we have chosen to do--and I underscore the word ``chosen''--we have selected among options what I will call a targeted grandfather approach, in which we have said that for those who were in business as of May 1994, and a rather tight definition of what you had to be doing in May 1994, all of which is outlined on pages 56 through 58 of the legislation, for a specific duration of time, you shall have authority to use flow control. Everybody else you excluded.”