Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 15 seconds. Mr. Speaker, I don't see how we can make it more clear to anybody who brings up the privacy arguments. If they go to lines 17 through 21 of page 2 of the bill, it states: `` . . . any personally identifiable information, trade secrets, or commercial or financial information obtained from a person and privileged or confidential, shall be redacted prior to public availability.'' Any misconstruing of that is unfortunate, and it is not an accurate description of that provision. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. LaHood), who is also the chairman of the Science, Space, and Technology's Subcommittee on Oversight. Mr. LaHOOD. Mr. Speaker, I thank Chairman Lamar Smith for yielding time and for his leadership on this important issue. Mr. Speaker, my district in central and west central Illinois is home to some of the most fertile farmland in the entire world. My district is the ninth largest congressional district in terms of corn and soybean production. With that said, farming families across the 19 counties I represent are faced every day with burdensome rules and regulations created by the EPA with little or no transparency into the data that influenced those regulations in the first place. These rules and regulations have and continue to cause real-world consequences to the agriculture community. Moreover, these EPA directives have far greater reach outside the realm of just farmers.…”