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Dale Bumpers: “Senator, the U.S. Government has sued this company for $600 million. The Government estimates that the cleanup cost is…”

On the recordSeptember 18, 1997
Senator, the U.S. Government has sued this company for $600 million. The Government estimates that the cleanup cost is going to be $1 billion. The Senator comes from the great State of Idaho, and I am sure they don't enjoy ingesting cyanide any more than anybody else in any other State would. But the Senator would have to admit that Idaho couldn't, if it wanted to, clean up this site. It doesn't have the resources. It is the taxpayers of this country that are stuck with that $1 billion debt out there with a company which brashly says, ``If you would have regulated us closer, we wouldn't have done it.'' That is like saying, ``If you had taken my pistol away from me, I wouldn't have committed that murder.''
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Dale Bumpers
Arkansas
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Discussing environmental cleanup costs and corporate responsibility during Senate debate.

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