Lincoln Chafee: “what I really hope is that the Senator will withdraw his amendment. As the Senator knows, we have had no hearings on…”

“what I really hope is that the Senator will withdraw his amendment. As the Senator knows, we have had no hearings on this. We have arrived at the tonnage limitations that affect importing States and exporting limits. We have had them agree to this very carefully, through a lot of laborious negotiations. If we add all the tonnage that comes with so- called industrial waste, and nobody knows how to define ``industrial waste,'' then we truly have upset the apple cart. What can we promise the Senator? I think he has a legitimate request that in the committee we would consider how to handle--I suppose we could get into municipal waste, into construction, demolition debris, also, and maybe that is something we ought to look at in the future. I do not want to say we will do it immediately if we agree to it. We have a pretty full agenda in that committee. I say to the Senator that I would agree to having some hearings in the future. I am not saying this calendar year, because this calendar year is really just taken up with all kinds of challenges in the committee including endangered species, Superfund, clean water, plus the other things we have on the agenda.”