Political Quotes

“this morning's editorial in the Washington Post calls for a second look at Spring Valley. This is the area in an exclusive residential neighborhood in Washington, D.C., immediately adjacent to the American University campus, that was 83 years ago the site of American chemical weapons testing and production during World War I. It is one of over 1,000 sites across America where we have unexploded ordnance, military toxins, environmental waste left from the past. I could not agree more with the Washington Post that it is time for a second look at what is happening in Spring Valley. Last spring, the gentlewoman from Washington, D.C., (Ms. Norton) and I led a group of media and concerned citizens to visit the site where we have saw the areas of the concentration of arsenic, the vacant child care center that had many, many times the level of recommended contaminants before it was vacated, that now stands empty where just a few months ago there were young children. Or looking at the back yard of the Korean Ambassador that is all scratched away where they are trying even now after the second cleanup to finish the job. Yes, it is time for a second look at the Spring Valley situation to see what happened, who knew the information, to see if people were adequately warned of the dangers. But I think there is a much larger issue here than the management of the Spring Valley site.”