Hon. Michael G. Oxley: “I would say the ``Nightmare on Elm Street'' has been running for the last 15 years, and it is called the existing…”

“I would say the ``Nightmare on Elm Street'' has been running for the last 15 years, and it is called the existing Superfund law that has fostered litigation to the point where we are spending half of the money on lawyers and we have only cleaned up about 5 percent of the sites. Anybody who knows anything about the Superfund Program knows what a disaster it has been. Whether they are the most green of green environmentalists or whether they are an evil corporate polluter, they know that the Superfund Program as exists today is not working. We are trying to change that program. Now, the gentleman from Michigan talked about scams. Let me show my colleagues what a scam is. I have a program there that shows how the cleanup of the Superfund sites takes place under today's program. Now, that is probably the lead-in to the ``Nightmare on Elm Street,'' and it may be the cartoon, but look at all the hoops one has to jump through. And meanwhile, meanwhile, the program has cost some $30 billion. That is billion with a ``B.'' We are here to change the program and make a lousy program work.”