Frank Lautenberg actually said...

One of the things that I've worked on since I've pretty much been in the Senate, and that is guaranteeing that the public has a right to kno...

But it is the taxpayers' responsibility if we do not have the polluters paying for what they have done.

I hope to persuade you that we ought to do the same thing all over this country of ours and move things along.

Since 2003 funding for Superfund clean ups has depended entirely on taxpayers.