Frank Pallone

If this century is to be another American century, the United States must harness innovation, strengthen the industrial base, and invest in the American worker.

There is a--unfortunately, a many-decades-long history of the industry failing to do exactly that.

USDA can do more to support the nation's seafood industry by complementing the programming of the National Marine Fisheries Service.

We have to preserve and expand this advantage by making sure that the United States, not countries like China, write the rules of the road for this technology.

We are prepared to meet this challenge with a bold vision for safety and innovation that will save lives, boost domestic manufacturing, strengthen our industrial base, protect and create new jobs, and grow wages.

Safety standards can help us get to AVs but can also help us protect lives now.

This is our vision to end the epidemic of automobile crashes and save American lives.

Thank you for providing me the opportunity to submit testimony to your Committee.

Under President Trump, EPA is deleting Superfund sites from the National Priorities List at the fastest pace in more than a decade.

In 2019, the EPA did not have funding to begin work on 34 Superfund sites, a number more than 50 percent above the highest figures from the Obama administration.

Polluters should pay for Superfund cleanups

I just think it is wrong.

Mr. Pallone. Thank you, Chairman Tonko. And look, Mr. McKinley, I like you, and I am trying not to be partisan here.

Preventing releases is better than cleaning them up after they occur

Taxpayers have been footing the bill to clean up polluters' messes for far too long.

But the bottom line is, if you are going to continue to say that somehow Trump did a better job at cleanup than Obama, then I am going to have to respond to that, and simply say that it is not true, OK?

Reinstating the Superfund taxes will reestablish the polluter pays principle of the law.

Cleanups are becoming even more imperative because of climate change

But the bottom line is we really need to have--we can't rely on general revenue, because the list of sites that don't get cleaned up and the type of cleanups that are ineffective get longer unless you have a pot of money like the Superfund…

I wanted to say that there are provisions in the CLEAN Future Act that aim to address these sites, and cleaning up these most vulnerable sites, and prevent new contamination.

Reinstating the Superfund tax will re-establish the polluter pays principle of the law, reduce pressures on the budget, and lead to faster cleanups of these toxic and dangerous sites.

I would totally disagree that more was done under Trump than under Obama, or to suggest--which may be or not, but it sounded like you were suggesting that most of the sites were cleaned up.

The Superfund program is critical to cleaning up the most toxic sites across our country.

I have no additional speakers at this time. I reserve the balance of my time.

The Biden administration's fiscal year 2022 budget request is, comparatively, a breath of fresh air.