Political Quotes

“I thank the Chairman. This amendment would allow the EPA to override the State and local regulations and thereby gut the purpose of this bill. Let's remember what the commonsense purpose of this bill is. There's nothing radical at all about this bill. In fact, in section 3 this bill protects public health. It protects public health by relying on the State and local regulators who are best equipped to make judgments about naturally occurring dust. And it does nothing at all to affect the particulate matter 2.5 standard. I think that's important to note inasmuch as it seems that the opposition seems to want to forget that. Let's remember the ultimate purpose of this bill, and that is to protect the farmer and the rural businesses from overreaching Federal regulation that causes uncertainty and it causes job loss. However, the EPA and the opposition talked about the myth. They say that it's more likely that the EPA would regulate fairy dust. They say that this is a solution in search of a problem. But our farmers know better; our rural business owners know better. They know better because they have looked at the proposed regulations and the proposals from the EPA staff that was dated back in April in which they proposed looking at and revising the PM10 standard. They also have seen the letter that was sent to my office in May of this year in which Ms.…”