Maurice Hinchey: “I want to express my appreciation for this committee and the leadership of Norm Dicks for providing the funding that we…”

If we can prevent pollution from occurring and dangers to the public health, we certainly ought to do that because we have huge examples for many centuries in this country where we haven't prevented the pollution and we end up having to…

The Chairman is not highlighting these transcripts. We are not waving red flags.

Thank you very much.

Thank you very much. I deeply appreciate it. The situation that we're dealing with here is critically important. It's harming huge numbers of people. What the Senate has done is an adequate solution to this problem. They've provided the…