Frank Lautenberg: “it is a strange anomaly that the name of this company, W.R. Grace, is the name of--I am not sure whether it was the…”

“it is a strange anomaly that the name of this company, W.R. Grace, is the name of--I am not sure whether it was the founder--but the name of someone who helped build this big company. It is also the name of someone who wrote a report that was officially called ``The Report of the Grace Commission'' in which they talked about how you reduce Government inefficiency, reduce costs, and cut down the size of Government and get those bureaucrats off our backs--all of those words. But now this company said there is one way to resolve problems, and that is to hide behind a good friend's efforts, whoever that friend may be, and get it off the hook for possibly--$120 million. We can't find enough money around here at times to take care of essential programs. We are cutting back Government as much as we can. We are trying to arrive at a balanced budget in the year 2002. And we struggled here not too long ago to try to get disaster relief money into the hands of people whose homes were torn apart, whose families' histories wiped out, with many left penniless and nowhere to turn. We had a heck of a time getting those funds to those people. Here we have $120 million that this Government is liable to have to spend to clean up this site. And what do we do? We let the company duck its responsibilities. Well, Mr. President, I don't intend to threaten at all. But I will say this: If this section stays in the bill and lets W.R.…”