Political Quotes

“I thank my good friend from Michigan. Mr. Chairman, for the 173rd time this year our friends on the other side have brought another anti-environmental, anti-public health bill to the floor. For good reason, this House majority has been identified as the most stridently anti-environmental Congress in history in a tragic refutation of Republicans' heretofore historic commitment to conservation and public safety. The REINS Act, like the Regulatory Accountability Act passed last week, has a poetic finality as it would block any and all progressive regulations largely the legacy of Republican Teddy Roosevelt. Under Teddy Roosevelt's administration, in response to appalling food processing conditions described in Upton Sinclair's ``The Jungle,'' Congress reacted and passed the first comprehensive food safety regulation. One hundred years later, the REINS Act, on the floor today, would block even the most commonsense regulations which Congress mandated just last session--new standards to protect Americans from deadly contamination by Chinese and Mexican imported foods. The REINS Act is a worthy piece of legislation for those among us who actually believe that Chinese factory farms should ship contaminated, uninspected food directly to American dinner tables.…”