Frank Lautenberg actually said...

"The fact is that we were cleaning up sites at a heck of a rate."

"clean ups should not stop and should not slow down."

"But General Motors and the other companies were not responsible for killing or maiming children, or pediatric cancers or other diseases that befell their past behavior."

"And if it is a program that affects national health, by God, whether it is confined to a community here or there, we ought to be paying for it by the polluter."