Political Quotes

“I would say to my friend--and this is my good friend--I'm with you all the way right till the very end. The one concern that we have is you say that the compliance date can't be any less than 5 years. If you would have just said that compliance shall be at 5 years, that there's a date certain, the problem with your legislation is there's no date certain. It sort of says to the administrator, it can't be sooner than 5 years, but it could be as long as you determine that you want it to be. It could theoretically be a hundred years. I'm not saying it would be a hundred years, but theoretically speaking. We realize that the proposed rule has flaws and it needs to be reworked. I'm with you on the 15-month rewrite, and we're working with industries right in Pittsburgh with EPA on this as we speak. What concerns many of us is that there's no time line, there's no end line, for compliance in your legislation. You say no less than 5 years, but you never say when is the final deadline. All this amendment asks for is to go back to the Clean Air Act where there's some definition. It's 3 years with the possibility of additional time if the case calls for it. I think if we could get some sort of a finalized deadline on compliance, that you could get a lot of support on this side of the aisle and possibly even pass this bill.…”