Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140603:01:23:00
From your earlier experience, or did you go through things that should inform the political fight now? >> the politics changed, obviously. we had an enthusiastic republican president in the white house. though we had critics and skeptics, the budget director predicted it would bring on a recession to pass the clean air act amendments of 1991. we had a very energetic and effective majority leader in the senate who had been not so patiently waiting for acid rain controls as a senator from maine for at least 15 years. and we eventually got a vote of 88 in the senate out of 100 in favor of the ame...