[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 4773]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             EPA AUTHORITY

  Mrs. BOXER. Mr. President, I rise today--and I am staying close to 
the floor today--because I am very concerned that the Senate is going 
to vote on some very detrimental proposals for the American people 
which have to do with, for the first time that I can tell in history, 
telling the Environmental Protection Agency it no longer can enforce 
the Clean Air Act as it relates to carbon pollution. We know carbon 
pollution is dangerous, insidious, and we know that if, in fact, the 
EPA is stopped from enforcing the Clean Air Act, our families will 
suffer, they will get asthma, they will have more heart attacks and 
strokes, they will miss work days, and they will die prematurely. That 
is the primary reason I rise this morning.

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