Glenn Grothman: “First of all, the gentlewoman from Maine makes a point not about this amendment specifically, but about the overall…”

“First of all, the gentlewoman from Maine makes a point not about this amendment specifically, but about the overall program. And that is you have a situation right now in which, apparently, the Department of Natural Resources is making a determination that we have unsafe air based upon fires that are hundreds of miles away that the local people can't do anything about. Secondly, the gentlewoman says it is tying the hands of local units of government. That is not true. Under this amendment, the local units of government have more flexibility. The question is can the Federal Government tie the hands of local units of government, which they shouldn't be able to do. So it is a good amendment. I think it is something that is going to, in the long term, benefit American business and, even more, benefit American individuals, particularly poor people, who don't have a lot of extra money, are stuck spending a lot more money on their cars because of determinations made by Federal bureaucrats in far-away cities who probably have enough money to be able to afford to deal with these problems anyway. I yield back the balance of my time.”