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Sherwood Boehlert: “The budget resolution creates a Superfund reserve fund. This reserve fund allows the chairman of the Committee on the…”

On the recordJune 26, 1996
The budget resolution creates a Superfund reserve fund. This reserve fund allows the chairman of the Committee on the Budget to increase the committee allocations when the Superfund taxes are extended and the program is reformed. That is what we are all about. We want to reform a program that everyone agrees is broken. It is deficit neutral, this fund, because it will come from the reauthorized Superfund business taxes. This bill sets the marker for the funding level that will be provided when these conditions are met. We are saying that we are committed, let me repeat that, we are saying that we are committed to fund a reformed Superfund at $2.2 billion and will use the extension of the Superfund taxes for that purpose. What we have said repeatedly from the beginning of this historic 104th Congress is that we want to reform Superfund. We have a plan; it is falling on deaf ears.
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Sherwood Boehlert
New York
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Speaking in support of a budget resolution related to Superfund reform.

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