[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 3]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 4111]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           SUPERFUND PROGRAM

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                        HON. CYNTHIA A. McKINNEY

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, April 9, 2002

  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, President Bush has already spent America 
from surplus to deficit, and now he wants to do the same thing with the 
Superfund program. But instead of overspending, he wants to starve 
Superfund to death.
  Now, I'd be the first to admit that Superfund hasn't been a perfect 
program. At first critics were right that it was a bonanza for everyone 
except the communities who were suffering from pollution and 
contamination. But that's all changed now, and the companies that are 
polluting our neighborhoods and communities, now want to get off scott 
free and President Bush is aiding and abetting them.
  Sadly, President Bush named as his Secretary of Interior a woman who 
believes that companies have a constitutional right to pollute. Now, 
Bush is allowing that kind of thinking to leach into the Superfund 
program, thus shielding corporations from the responsibilities of 
cleaning up what they mess up. Now, President Bush wants teachers, and 
police officers, and America's working families to foot that bill.
  By eliminating the Superfund tax, corporate polluters will no longer 
have to support the fund that protects me and you from the damage that 
they do.
  Bush should stop rewarding his fat cat friends and represent 
America's working families.

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