[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 48 (Tuesday, April 16, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H3398]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP

  (Mr. COX of California asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COX of California. Mr. Speaker, Earth Day is coming, and if we 
are serious about protecting the planet, we are going to have to work 
together as Democrats and Republicans, as Americans and as citizens of 
this planet Earth to achieve the results that we all say that we are in 
favor of.
  It is not going to work to say Republicans or Democrats, this and 
that. We have 60 Superfund sites where work has stopped. We have some 
2,000 Superfund sites, 1,300 of which we have not even gotten to. If we 
are serious about this, we will stop spending billions of dollars, $5 
billion out of the last $15 billion, on nothing but litigation and 
bureaucracy.
  Superfund reform is bipartisan. Republicans favor it, Democrats favor 
it, and we need to pass it if we are serious about cleaning up toxic 
waste sites. If we are serious about protecting our rain forests and 
our savannas, then perhaps you will wish to sponsor the Rain Forest and 
Savanna Protection Act that I will soon be introducing, that will 
condition World Bank, IMF, bilateral, and multilateral foreign aid to 
countries that ought to be responsible for protecting our rain forests 
and savannas on sound environmental stewardship.

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