Paul Tonko actually said...

"The Federal Government is subject to the Superfund law, and the government spends billions of dollars annually to clean up hazardous contamination at Federal facilities."

"Thank you, and good morning. I thank Chair Shimkus and Chair Whitfield for holding this hearing."

"If now we are incurring these costs only to export the oil, support for expanded domestic production will be even less popular than it is already in non-oil producing areas of the country."

"I would like to see us become less dependent on oil, imported or domestic, but that has not yet been achieved."