Political Quotes

“in both my committees, I have heard from the EPA and specifically from EPA Administrator Carol Browner that they need our help in using sound scientific research to make policy decisions. Many of the complaints I have heard about the EPA over the years is that there seems to be, to put it mildly, a poor match between their decisionmaking and their research. Now I'm not seeking to rake EPA over the coals one more time here, but to offer positive steps to solve the problem. Many of my colleagues agree that it is time to put our money where their mouth is. I offered an amendment in subcommittee, later revised in the full committee and again in consultation with Science Committee chairman Bob Walker's input in the Shuster en-bloc amendment here today, to make sure that in these tight budget times we do not lose sight of the fact that water quality research remains a vital function of how the federal government can participate in making our environment better. But more importantly, my amendment has the intent not to fund the continued 'paper-pushing research' of Washington bureaucrats, but to invest in cooperative efforts of localities and small municipalities, counties, and cities to find solutions to their clean water challenges.”