John Chafee: “I wish to join with the floor manager of the bill, the chairman of our committee, in his views on this amendment. The…”

“I wish to join with the floor manager of the bill, the chairman of our committee, in his views on this amendment. The committee, as perhaps has been pointed out, the Environment Committee, has reported out a bill to reauthorize the Clean Water Act. So that is done. That is out of the committee. We expect it to be up before the Senate in several weeks. It seems to me the Clean Water Act, since it is the program that deals with sewage treatment, is where the Senator's amendment should be rather than the Safe Drinking Water Act which is before us now. You also have the added problem the Senator from Montana just pointed out. There are a whole group of Senators who want to tap into the $500 million that has been appropriated, and if we were to take up the Senator's amendment today, which provides for 100 percent financing for this facility, obviously it would bring all the others over here--and some who had not heard about it--who would feel distressed because they have agreed to hold back waiting for the Clean Water Act to come through here. I really think that is the proper place to have this amendment.”