Max Baucus: “The fact is this amendment will sink this bill. The reason is because there is so much construction, demolition…”

“The fact is this amendment will sink this bill. The reason is because there is so much construction, demolition material, there is so much sludge, there is so much wastewater treatment, there is so much of this in interstate commerce today. Many States want to ship this material to another State to help, frankly, with Superfund cleanup or to deal with their waste in a way that makes good sense to their own State, and vice versa. It works both ways. Every State in the Nation ships this material out of State. Every State does and every State receives some. So if this amendment were to be adopted, the general commerce today of the interstate shipment of construction and demolition material generally, and the other material that is covered by the Senator's amendment, would be severely disrupted and stopped. What then happens? It is not going to happen because Senators are going to stand up and filibuster this bill because they know that they represent interests in their States who want to be able to ship material through interstate commerce.”