Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I want to first say how much I support the Murkowski resolution, and I will be voting for it. But I want to point out, as ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, how it is we got into this circumstance and why it is not justified. Why it should never have happened, and why it is a product of the worst kind of judicial activism. And finally, why we need to see how we can work our way out of it. In 1970, the Congress passed the Clean Air Act, and they allowed EPA to regulate pollutants. Rather than try to specifically define pollutants, they said it would be defined by the Director of the EPA, and he would have that decision-making authority. That is the way it was for many years. Then years went by and people began to talk about global warming. Global warming developed a certain momentum and a number of scientists signed onto this idea. Even though CO<INF>2</INF> is a plant food and the more CO<INF>2</INF> that is in the atmosphere the better plants grow. And even though we breathe out CO<INF>2</INF> and plants breathe in CO<INF>2</INF> which produces the oxygen that we breathe in this wonderful system that we are a part of. They concluded that CO<INF>2</INF> was increasing because we were taking carbon fuels mostly from our soils, burning it, and that was increasing the percentage of CO<INF>2</INF> in the atmosphere. Presumably it had at one time been in the atmosphere and had been sucked up by plants.…”