George H.W. Bush: “Well, there's a lot of discussion going on with them. It has to do with the other environmental concerns, too. I believe…”

“Well, there's a lot of discussion going on with them. It has to do with the other environmental concerns, too. I believe that Mexico--and the technical way we're doing this I'd have to defer--even maybe Ed could answer it, but I'd have to defer to Carla. I'm not sure. I have discussed at length the environmental concerns here with the President of Mexico. And all I can tell you is that he has moved forward. He's already shut down or is in the process of shutting down the highest polluting refinery in Mexico. It's the PEMEX refinery. He is well aware of the environmental concerns in this country, and he shares them as far as Mexico. I'll give you an example. When I first met--maybe not the first meeting but early-on meeting with President Salinas, who's a good man-- and he started telling me about the children in the Mexican schools. They paint the sky at night with no stars. Imagine that--a school child painting the sky gray. He said, ``My ambition is to have the children paint the night with the stars and the moon so they can see it.'' And I am convinced that he is going to do what is reasonable and what he should do to protect his environment, just as we're trying hard to do it on ours. So, in terms of this, I'm embarrassed to say I can't give you the technical language as to what we might be doing right now on agricultural pesticide use, pesticide use in agriculture, but I am confident--and incidentally, the Senators tell me that they are confident that the environmental questions can be readily answered. Ed, do you want to add anything? Secretary Madigan. You covered it very well.”