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Harold Volkmer: “So what we are saying is that the Federal Government should pay for what other people, whether it is private industry…”

On the recordJanuary 20, 1995
So what we are saying is that the Federal Government should pay for what other people, whether it is private industry, whether it is communities, should pay to do what they should have done anyway, what they should have done on their own without the Federal Government telling them what to do, unless proponents of this bill really believe that we should not do anything on safety, health, as far as pollution itself, and that we should just let the local communities do what they want to do, and if they or the industries, they want to pollute, they can go ahead and pollute, and it is only when the Federal Government says, ``We will pay for what you should not do anyway,'' that it is going to be cleaned up. So I think this legislation needs a heck of a lot more time than it is getting.
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Harold Volkmer
Democratic · Missouri
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Discussing the implications of federal funding for pollution control legislation.

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