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Lincoln Chafee: “I agree with Senator Leahy. The American taxpayers have already spent over $1 million on the EPA Mercury Report. The…”

On the recordJuly 17, 1998
I agree with Senator Leahy. The American taxpayers have already spent over $1 million on the EPA Mercury Report. The Report does not need to be redone. I do not believe that anyone who actually reads it objectively would conclude that we need to study mercury all over again before Congress or EPA can make any decision about mercury emissions. But that is precisely what the House report language would require. This report language is an inappropriate use of the appropriations process.
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Lincoln Chafee
Rhode Island
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Discussing the EPA Mercury Report and its implications during Senate debate.

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