[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 79 (Wednesday, June 17, 1998)]
[House]
[Page H4641]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      SUPERFUND REFORM IS OVERDUE

  (Mr. BOEHLERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BOEHLERT. Mr. Speaker, it is time and long past due to reform the 
Superfund program. The Superfund program is designed to clean up our 
Nation's toxic waste sites. The administration is prone to repeating 
over and over and over again that more than 10 million Americans live 
within 4 miles of a toxic waste site. That is a serious concern to the 
administration. It is a serious concern to the Congress of the United 
States.
  Yet, what do we get from the administration when we call on them to 
support much-needed Superfund reform? We get the Vice President of the 
United States reading a script prepared by the Democratic Congressional 
Campaign Committee.
  Mr. Speaker, I call upon the Vice President to quit the partisanship 
and get on with the serious business of reforming Superfund. We have a 
bill, H.R. 2727, which is endorsed by the National Governors' 
Association, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the National Federation of 
Independent Business, the National Association of Manufacturers, the 
list goes on and on. They support meaningful reform of Superfund 
because they know how important it is to America. I call upon the 
administration to join us in this task.

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