Political Quotes

“I would say this to the gentleman. One of the items he brought up about being commonsensical about the environmental laws, our chairman of the Committee on Science, the gentleman from Pennsylvania, Bob Walker, said we should have strong environmental laws but they should be science-based, based on what--we know we can improve the environment, but based on those who are expert in the field coming forward and telling us how can we achieve that end. I think that is very important. Certainly you hit an item on Superfund. We have seen since 1980 when Superfund was first created, most of the funds have been spent unfortunately not on the cleanups, which are in some cases not that great a deal of money, but we have been fighting over who the potentially responsible parties are under the Superfund law. So the money is going into lawsuits instead of the cleanups. I think with the reform that you are speaking to, that the House is going to be addressing, it is going to finally get some of these cleanups going.”