Political Quotes

“the Senator talks about cleanup, but over the years $1.4 billion has been recouped by the Department of Defense. That money simply goes to the Treasury to an account earmarked for precisely what the Senator from Michigan said, for cleanup and other expenses. Again, the Federal taxpayers who once owned the land now do not have to add additional burdens out of their pockets for cleanup as a consequence of this existing framework of laws that has been there for 16 years that enable some properties to bring about money for the Federal Government, but it goes precisely into that account for the cleanup, to save Federal taxpayers the added burden of cleanup expenses. The Senator made a key point. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Maine.”