basically, this is creating a rube goldberg type of legislative mechanism that would thwart the creation of regulations and rules that protect the american public and that's just plum wrong. now, what this does is tries to gut the e.p.a. and i'm shocked my good friends on the other side would try to gut the work of one of their great presidents, richard nixon, served in this house, served in the senate, four years as vice president, i think he almost eked out five years, he had some ethical channels as president he did create the e.p.a. and did some good environmental things. they should hold up the e.p.a. and hold up richard nixon as one of their standard bearers, probably served the longest time as president, vice president, and senate leader and served on the house committee. to forget richard nickson and minimize his work, i'm amazed, because he's one of the great heros on the other side of the aisle. to make these rules go through the house and senate, we know the house and senate don't get along. they mentioned, yeah, we got the len bill through. that's the first thing we did since