Political Quotes

“several months ago dozens of us were sent to Washington, DC, to try to bring back to this institution balance and reason. The American people want the pendulum to come back to the middle. We have gone too far with regulation. We have gone too far with litigation. We have gone too far with taxation. I could go on and on. The pendulum needs to come back to the middle. We are not, as you hear from the other side, rolling back and gutting and destroying and all of these emotional words. We are bringing the pendulum back to the middle and preserving clean water and doing the right thing, but making it tolerable for our free society. I am proud to come from Chattanooga, TN, a city that at one time was on the dirty air list in this country. Through a spirit of cooperation from the private sector and some government regulations--yes, some but not too many--we have gone from the dirty air list in this country in Chattanooga, TN to the clean air list. We are now becoming a model with respect to water quality and the improvements there in Chattanooga, but it is done out of a desire to cooperate between the private sector and the public sector, and it is not a result of Federal Government micromanagement in every single affair of our citizenry in this country. H.R. 961 maintains our commitment to clean water while honoring our constitutionally protected private property rights. Every mud puddle in America should not be a wetland.”