[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 10279]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                 GOVERNMENT MUST ENFORCE POLLUTION LAWS

  (Mr. INSLEE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. INSLEE. Mr. Speaker, this morning the Sustainable Energy and 
Environment Caucus had a meeting with Environmental Protection Agency 
Administrator Lisa Jackson, and she told us something that I thought 
was encouraging, which is that the United States Federal Government has 
insisted that British Petroleum drill a second relief well to make sure 
that we've got a relief well that can ultimately stop this horrific 
spill in the gulf coast.
  And it's encouraging because the Federal Government has to be the 
ultimate decider to make sure this job gets done. BP only wanted to do 
one well, but the President and his administration insisted that they 
do two wells to make sure that we get one that works.
  But there's a disturbing effort now going on in the U.S. Senate to 
deprive the EPA of the ability to clean up the industry that is now 
putting pollution in the air as well. We've got to preserve the Federal 
Government's ability to enforce our air pollution and clean water laws. 
The American people deserve that. We ought to stand strong to have a 
sheriff in charge of this operation.

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