Political Quotes

“I would call to their attention that according to the Defense Department's own data, the program to clean up unexploded ordnance on formerly used defense sites will take as much as 252 years. That means in the year 2255 that Congress passing spending bills will still be appropriating money to deal with the problem that we could solve today. Why, if we have technology that has already realized $100 million saving at the former Lowry Bombing Range outside of Denver, Colorado, why are we not moving forward to address this problem? Despite the fact that this Defense Science Board has proposed 5 recommendations that would allow us to address this problem, 80 percent of it over the next 5 years, why do we do nothing but continue to study it? Worse yet, we have actually decreased the funding that is crippling the Department of Defense. It is burdening other Federal land management agencies and it is endangering the health and safety of the American public. We have to ask why. Is it because we need another tragedy to occur like what happened in San Diego when 2 boys were killed when they discovered bombs in their neighborhood that, unknown to the residents, sat on top of a former bombing range?”