Political Quotes

“I thank you, Mr. President, and I thank Senator Chafee. This legislation in title II, which is the title to which my remarks will be directed, raises again the fundamental question that this Federal Government has dealt with throughout its history, and that is the appropriate role of the State government and the National Government. In this case, it raises, in stark relief, the question of who should decide an issue as basic to our public welfare as the disposition of garbage. I start from a general presumption that that level of government which is closest to the people who will be affected by the action should be able to control the action and therefore I have a general predisposition toward local and State government having responsibility and control. In this case, that predisposition also happens to be in the historical responsibility of local government for the control of their solid waste and its disposition. Let me turn to a little background of how we got to the legislation that is before us today. I will use for purposes of my examples primarily illustrations from my State of Florida but I believe that similar examples could be drawn from any of the other some 35 States which have adopted a flow control process to direct their solid waste. In the case of my State, this involvement was largely driven by environmental and particularly water-related concerns and the impact that those proper considerations of environmental circumstances would have on the public health.…”