I would comment that every year since the passage of the Clean Air Act in 1977, we have fewer pollutants than the year before.

Governor Leavitt, thank you very much for an excellent opening statement.

I want to publicly thank him for making Tar Creek a top priority.

Now, let's be sure we understand this. We are paying taxpayers money to get people to lobby us, and this is a concept that I find just totally outrageous.

It is a tax on businesses who are already having very serious problems.

The taxpayers of our Nation should have the burden of that as light as possible. The polluter should have it as heavy as possible.

I would like to make a request, and you may have to answer it for the record, but I think there are two areas that are important.

the small marginal producers, one statement that has never been challenged is that if we had all of the marginal wells flowing today that we have plugged in the last 10 years, that it would equal more than we are currently importing from…

I am disappointed yet again to see the green eyeshades at OMB cutting the Clean Water SRF.

It's time to reinstate the Superfund fees in order to replenish the Superfund Trust Fund.

I am pleased to see that the President increased his funding request for the Superfund program of $124 million.

Wouldn't you say it is also false to say that the Superfund tax is a tax on polluters, when in fact there are many people who are subjected to this tax who had no capability of polluting, let alone any history of polluting?