[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 81 (Tuesday, May 16, 1995)]
[House]
[Pages H4964-H4965]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                         THE EPA AND SAN DIEGO

  (Mr. TRAFICANT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TRAFICANT. Mr. Speaker, check this out. A Mexican spokesman said, 

[[Page H4965]] Mexico has no money to honor NAFTA, and Uncle Sam will 
have to clean up the pollution on the border. Now that means that 
millions of gallons of raw sewage from Tijuana will contaminate the 
beaches of San Diego. It also means that San Diego will have to come up 
with $16,000,000 to build the treatment plant because Mexico was 
supposed to but they cannot. But the EPA says, in any regard, no one is 
going to build a treatment plant down there because you will endanger 
the habitat of the pocket mouse.
  Beam me up. People in San Diego are swimming in raw fecal matter, and 
the EPA is worried about the pocket mouse. Ladies and gentlemen, why 
don't we let Mickey Mouse take care of the pocket mouse and EPA take 
care of the American people like they are supposed to.
  I say maybe it is time we enforce NAFTA and also pass the clean water 
bill. It is a commonsense bill.

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