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...District of Columbia Appropriations Act. You might think that would be a boring piece of legislation. You would be wrong. For buried in the endless clauses authorizing such spending items as $867 million for education and $5 million to promote the adoption of foster children was Section 6001: Superfund Recycling Equity. It had nothing to do with the District of Columbia, nor appropriations, nor "equity" as it is commonly defined...
Instead Section 6001 was inserted in the appropriations bill by Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Senate majority leader, to take the nation's scrap-metal dealers off the hook for millions of dollars in potential Superfund liabilities at toxic-waste sites. In doing so, Lott had the support of colleagues in both parties...
...defense contractor that made fuel tanks for World War II fighter planes, it serves about 2,000 students, mostly poor, mostly minority. But across the street is the former home of a chrome-plating shop, a site so hazardous that it is scheduled for cleanup under the federal Superfund program. During construction of the school, it was discovered that the soil and groundwater under the building were contaminated with hexavalent chromium, a tasteless, odorless and colorless toxin. Exposure through food, air or drinking water can cause skin rashes, kidney and liver ailments and--at high enough levels--brain damage...
...there are substantial differences. While most candidates are pitching themselves as "fighters," I have actually gone to Washington and fought to get a piece of legislation through Congress--the landmark Superfund law which paid for the clean-up of toxic waste sites all across the nation...
...pass the Superfund legislation in the 1980s, we had to organize a national grass-roots coalition of more than 1,000 organizations to overcome the objections of Ronald Reagan and a Republican Senate. The primary lesson I learned from that battle was that power comes from the exercise of collective action. It is this belief in what people can do when they work together, and my personal experiences mobilizing and organizing, which I hope to bring to Washington...