Lincoln Chafee: “I think this. First, I am not willing to concede that in Broward or Dade County, or wherever it might be, inevitably, if…”

“I think this. First, I am not willing to concede that in Broward or Dade County, or wherever it might be, inevitably, if do you not have flow control, your waste is going to end up in an environmentally damaging situation. That does not necessarily follow. We have all kinds of laws on the books dealing with the handling of waste in this country. And if some other outfit comes in--Waste Management, or whoever it is--and hauls it, they cannot just take it and dump it in some lovely field above a ground water area. They have to dispose of it in a proper way. But the whole root of what we are dealing with is the commerce clause of the Constitution of the United States, which says that there should be free interstate transportation and movement in our Nation. That has served us pretty well. You might say, ``How petty can you get? Why should Miami, or wherever, not be permitted to handle their waste, and if everybody has to take it to one place, and that is the only place, that is the way we want to run our business?'' But the Supreme Court has said that is against the Constitution. I know we can fix it up, and the Supreme Court, as you pointed out, has also said we can straighten it out. So far, we have chosen not to take that extra step.”