[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 31 (Wednesday, March 12, 1997)]
[House]
[Page H894]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       EPA'S IRRATIONAL POLICIES

  (Mr. NEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. NEY. Mr. Speaker, today is the end of the public comment period 
for the EPA first phase implementation of their irrational policies.
  This chart, Mr. Speaker, is not a map that shows all the great 
bipartisan spirit of Hershey, but this is a bipartisan issue, because 
where you see red on this map, Mr. Speaker, are areas throughout the 
United States, Democrat and Republican representation, that are going 
to be in jeopardy because working families are going to be at a very 
high risk of losing their very livelihoods and way of life because of 
irrational policies by the EPA.
  Today ends the public commentary period. George Wolfe, an EPA 
scientist, stated himself before one of our hearings that these 
proposals are based on a policy decision by the director instead of 
sound science.
  It is time to stop this because, Mr. Speaker, the policies they are 
going to try to implement are not going to do anything to make a 
betterment for people, but it is going to do one thing; it is going to 
take away working Americans' jobs, it is going to hurt the school 
systems, and the communities. It is time to fight these proposals.

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