Herbert H. Bateman said "I rise to point out that, under the terms of the Rogan- Bateman amendment, the Environmental Protection Agency accounts are not being ravaged or savaged. They are 99.9 percent of what the President requested for the Environmental Protection Agency. It does not come from any one single EPA account. The amendment is structured to take 1.1 percent from an account, 3.1 from an account that is a $1,815,000,000 account. This is not egregious to EPA. But believe me, to say that one of the defects of my amendment is that it is only a drop in the bucket of what NASA needs I think is turning sound argument upside down. I think it certainly behooves us to at least do that much and do it now when there is a clear way to do it, making a rational public policy choice. I urge my colleagues to make that choice by supporting the Rogan- Bateman amendment." @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordSeptember 8, 1999

I rise to point out that, under the terms of the Rogan- Bateman amendment, the Environmental Protection Agency accounts are not being ravaged or savaged. They are 99.9 percent of what the President requested for the Environmental Protection Agency. It does not come from any one single EPA account. The amendment is structured to take 1.1 percent from an account, 3.1 from an account that is a $1,815,000,000 account. This is not egregious to EPA. But believe me, to say that one of the defects of my amendment is that it is only a drop in the bucket of what NASA needs I think is turning sound argument upside down. I think it certainly behooves us to at least do that much and do it now when there is a clear way to do it, making a rational public policy choice. I urge my colleagues to make that choice by supporting the Rogan- Bateman amendment.

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Herbert H. Bateman

Virginia

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govinfo.gov

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the Rogan-Bateman amendment and its impact on the Environmental Protection Agency's budget.

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