[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11010]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                              DIRTY WATER

  (Mr. QUIGLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Speaker, today the House will take up the so-called 
Clean Water Cooperative Federal Act, a bill that would more aptly be 
named the ``Dirty Water Act.''
  Rarely does this body so blatantly attempt to deceive and misinform 
than in the case of a bill that in neither spirit nor practice seeks 
cleaner water.
  This legislation would render the EPA toothless to enforce the Clean 
Water Act, giving polluters more leeway to break from clean water 
standards and make it more difficult for the Army Corps of Engineers to 
receive constructive advice from environmental experts during the 
permit process.
  Additionally, the bill would make it impossible for the EPA to adjust 
clean water standards accordingly if new science emerges, an 
appropriately anti-science provision for those who have promoted a 
head-in-the-sand attitude toward addressing our environmental problems. 
We cannot stand by quietly during this attempt to lower water quality 
standards under the Orwellian mantle of ``clean water,'' and I hope 
this body does not fall for the ``Dirty Water Act.''

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