04/27/2010
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"What happened on 9/11, New Jersey lost 700 of its citizens in that calamitous occasion."
"What exists here as a result of the exposure to lead is almost a national tragedy in terms of the result that we see with 500,000 children having dangerous levels of lead in their body."
"What would you say the principal actions your agencies are taking to identify other contaminated sites?"
"It strikes me that this menace has existed for so many years now, and the result of the impairing a child's ability to learn, to study, is part of a national catastrophe."