Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I listened to the gentlelady with interest. And, of course, it's easy to sit in Washington and whatever group you may be with and say this group is wrong or that group is wrong, and everybody can trot out their experts. But, ladies and gentlemen, the CRS doesn't own and operate boilers, businesses do. Lots of them are going to be impacted by this--big businesses, small businesses, and the people who work for them. Last week I referenced a letter to the editor of the Virginian Leader sent in by Mr. and Mrs. Kinney, in which they said: ``I'm going to be very blunt with the following opinion: As a factory worker and taxpayer, I'm getting sick and tired of these Federal agencies who have nothing better to do except sit in their Washington offices and draw up rules and regulations to kill American jobs. Why don't they get off their sorry behinds and go out across the Nation and try to help industry save what jobs we have left? And who is paying these EPA people's salary? We are, the American workers. I believe in protecting the environment, but we can't shut the whole country down to achieve it.'' I referenced that letter last week, and I referenced Giles County in my comments in a Republican radio address later that week. And in response to that, Mr. and Mrs. Kinney wrote again to the Leader. And we're not talking about big businesses here, we're talking about businesses that affect employees in small counties all across this country.…”