Political Quotes

“I think my colleague makes a key point. My colleague from Idaho has been discussing what has been described as the worst disaster in American history, and it is what is happening right today in the Gulf of Mexico. Should the Environmental Protection Agency maybe be focusing its efforts there, where we know there is a real problem, a real job to be done, real concerns, and the American people are looking or should the Environmental Protection Agency spend its time and spend our resources driving up the cost of energy and doing it with the idea that perhaps 100 years from now it might make a difference? The efforts ought to be placed today where the efforts are needed most. The Environmental Protection Agency ought to be focused on the gulf, not on something that theoretically may make a difference 100 years from now. At a time when emissions are going up in China and going up in India and going up in Russia, going up all around the world, the Environmental Protection Agency says: I want to handcuff the American economy, handcuff the small businesses of this country. At a time with 9.7 percent unemployment, let's make it tougher on Americans--that is what the Environmental Protection Agency wants to do. If this Senate goes ahead and defeats the Murkowski amendment, they will be saying exactly the same thing. We are going to make it tougher on small businesses.…”