On the recordSeptember 18, 1997
But the countersuit says that based on today's science, if we had known it then, which we didn't--you didn't, I didn't, and no scientist understood it--then we could have done something different. But as of now this is not an issue for mining law; this is an issue of a Superfund law that doesn't work, that promotes litigation. That is why the arguments you make are really not against mining law reform, which you and I support in some form. What you are really taking is a Superfund law that is tied up in the committees of this Senate, is nonfunctional, and produces lawsuits.
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