Political Quotes

“Madam Chair, my amendment would simply require that the President certify that this bill will not have an adverse effect on the health of Americans. It would specifically and additionally ensure that the legislation would not result in a disproportionately adverse impact on at-risk subpopulations. I would submit that the majority should be enthused about my amendment to require the President to certify that the delay of cement kiln standards won't harm the public health of Americans and have this disproportionate adverse impact. This is since we have heard all day the majority speak of how the majority of mercury, for example, comes from natural sources, that it comes from foreign sources from the Pacific to the Mississippi, and that the dangers of mercury should not be unfairly burdened and blamed on cement kilns. This Presidential certification would allow them to rebut those assertions. This Presidential certification would allow them to rebut that cement kilns are the second-largest source of airborne mercury pollution in the United States or that mercury is a powerful neurotoxin that can affect the mental development of children. Since this majority has questioned the methodology of the EPA findings using OMB standards, the assumptions, they should welcome this Presidential finding to rebut the assertion that EPA has made that cement kilns also emit lead, arsenic, and other toxic metals that could be carcinogenic and seriously dangerous.…”