Frank Lautenberg

I am glad to hear that, thank you, because I was not sure where you were going.

Government intervention too often becomes more about the jobs that it creates and maintaining their need versus the original intent for which the jobs were created.

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.

The fact of the matter is that the biggest concern for our Government has to be how we take care of the children, the future generations.

Well, if that does not tell you something about the exposure that we are willing to let people have who unfortunately live near these Superfund sites.

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

Hooray for the Federal Government.

I was glad I voted for it. It turned the economy around.

So, to me, that is the danger.

These sites grow ever more dangerous.

Could reinstating the Superfund Polluter Pays Fee, would it help to get these sites cleaned up faster?

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

If we do not provide more resources for EPA, how long might it take to clean up all of the currently listed Superfund sites?

We have to do something, something serious about protecting our families.

We have got to clean up these festering sites, and when the responsible party can be found--the responsible party, and I do not speak I am sure for all of us, but the responsible party must pay.

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

Yet GAO reports that there are at least 75 Superfund sites that pose--and I quote here--unacceptable human exposure.

We are here today because there are hundreds of highly dangerous Superfund sites across the country that sit unabated in our neighborhoods.

We will have your full statement for the record.

I expect that the airlines will find more and more ways to separate fliers from their money.

Is it possible that airlines can be profitable?

What we're really hearing is that, yes, there will be redundancy, there will be overlap, and people will lose their jobs.

And it would---- so, how can we object to something like this?