"What costs a thousand dollars? You can't even get in those gates."
"I couldn't be happier with your response."
"Would the partners have an objection to an independent study? The silence is deafening."
"I listed Spring Valley as one of my top priorities in a letter to the Chair as the legislative year began because of the national and local importance of confronting Federal responsibility for informi..."
"I appreciate that, beginning in my early years in Congress when I was in the minority, this committee has held every hearing that I have requested to assure that the Spring Valley neighborhood surroun..."
"Neither Congress nor the community has seen the Corps' 2 year exit plan or any evidence that the area has been cleaned."
"So what would be the evidence then of whether or not there was anything harmful there if it was buried that deep?"
"What you have just said mentioning regulators suggests that the Corps should not leave on the basis of its own evaluation, but only after regulators have certified that in their independent judgment i..."
"However, Mr. Chairman, the Corps neither informed this committee, despite our oversight over the years, or me, the city's only elected congressional official."
"I think that in light of your testimony about how the Corps has underestimated the cost of cleanup, that would seem to be important to do."
"I recognize the position, particularly that the Corps is put in, in dealing with their own munitions very deeply buried."