"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."
"Congress enacted the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act, commonly known as Superfund, some 35 years ago, but communities across the country are still dealing with the ..."
"Last Congress, this committee considered legislation to change the treatment of Federal facility cleanups under Superfund."
"The good news is that sites are being cleaned up. When sites are cleaned up, the surrounding community benefits from a cleaner, healthier environment, and returning abandoned, contaminated land to pro..."
"Thank you, and good morning. I thank Chair Shimkus and Chair Whitfield for holding this hearing."
"Thank you for your leadership and your obvious grasp of the issues is a tremendous benefit to EPA."
"I would like to see us become less dependent on oil, imported or domestic, but that has not yet been achieved."
"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 am pleased we are holding this hearing on such an important topic."
"Representative Butterfield had to leave. He has asked that I request that this article, Fatal Police Shootings in 2015 Approaching 400 Nationwide, be submitted to the record."
"the study reads as an advocacy document."