Frank Pallone: “Just very quickly, Mr. Chairman, again responding to the gentleman from New York. If we need a budget waiver, if we need…”

“Just very quickly, Mr. Chairman, again responding to the gentleman from New York. If we need a budget waiver, if we need the authorization for the Superfund Program or the reauthorization, and we need another appropriation, we have to go through that anyway in future Congresses. So there is nothing here. This is a totally unreal situation where they are suggesting that we will do this in the future if we can get it authorized, if we can get an appropriation and if we can get a budget waiver. It seems to me that in the next Congress, or whenever this comes up again, we would have to do all those things anyway to proceed. So, there is nothing here. As my friend from Pennsylvania said, this is nothing really but a publicity effort or advertising effort to make it look like the Republican leadership is actually doing something. The reality is they are doing nothing on the Superfund Program, and, if anything, it may cause mischief and suggest that somehow, if this money does become available in the future, it might be used for some kind of rebate program, and that is my concern. But I do not see that we are really doing anything here at all. This is just advertising promotion to make the Republicans feel that they, as my colleagues know, look good or appear that they are trying to do something when they are not.”