[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 102 (Thursday, July 17, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H5409-H5410]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      BOGUS AIR QUALITY STANDARDS

  (Mr. BARR of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BARR of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, yesterday we had the administration 
officially come forward with its national ambient air quality 
standards,

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otherwise known as BAQS, bogus air quality standards.
  Mr. Speaker, the administration tells us this is to save the 
children. But, Mr. Speaker, what do you tell the child whose family 
cannot afford a home because the so-called new air standards put the 
cost of those new homes beyond their family's means? What do you tell 
the child whose father is out of work because these so-called new air 
standards shut down his business? What do you tell the community that 
cannot build a new hospital because these new so-called standards 
cannot be met?
  Mr. Speaker, America's children do not need weird science. They need 
homes, parents with jobs, new schools, new hospitals, all which would 
become endangered species if these so-called new standards are allowed 
to go into effect.

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