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Jerry Lewis: Mr. Speaker, I certainly am not going to object to this suggestion by my colleague. By way of commentary, however, I…

On the recordSeptember 3, 1997
Mr. Speaker, I certainly am not going to object to this suggestion by my colleague. By way of commentary, however, I must say that it was at least 15 years ago as a member of this committee I traveled to the northern part of the State of New York, and during that trip I visited a place called Love Canal. At that point in time we knew that the Superfund program had many a problem. The new Administrator indicated to us that this was a program and project that was very, very important but which was broken. I certainly do hope that between now and the time we go to conference that my colleague will join with me one more time in asking the administration for their suggestion as to how we fix this program, for she has been talking about it publicly a lot, but I have seen no recommendation.
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Jerry Lewis
California

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Discussing the Superfund program and its issues during a speech in the House.

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