Jerry Lewis: “reclaiming my time, let me suggest to the gentleman, as well as the gentleman who is offering the amendment, that this…”

“reclaiming my time, let me suggest to the gentleman, as well as the gentleman who is offering the amendment, that this discussion and this issue reminds me very much of the low-level radioactive waste issue that is facing many of our States currently. Years ago we in the Congress recognized the problem of accumulations of low-level radioactive waste in location after location around the country. So we sort of regionalized it and said that areas or States would create compacts where this could be accumulated. Then when we got to the point where there was such a site located, the local people became involved and nobody wanted something like this in their own backyard. We have a PCB problem that is very real. We have to deal with it. Candidly, we are not going to particularly be successful opposing this amendment at this point, but it certainly is not helping us really get a handle on this important problem. In the final analysis, we have a responsibility to do that.”