House Proceeding on Mar 11th, 2009 :: 0:03:35 to 0:04:50
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Bart Stupak: effort at expanding health coverage will be unsustainable. this work will be difficult and complex, but we are compelled to act. both to meet the needs of millio and americans. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman mr. kirkto address the house for one minute and to revise and extend.

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Speech By: Bart Stupak

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Bart Stupak: the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. kirk: thank you. today's "chicago tribune" includes a report by michael hawthorne that the administration has decided not to move nuclear waste from the great lakes. this leaves thousands of tons of plutonium and our transuranic poisons next to the drinking water of 30 million americans and millions of canadians.

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Bart Stupak: what would happen if plutonium leaks into the great lakes? it would contaminate 95% of america's fresh water for thousands of years. we know that respected scientists would never recommend permanently storing nuclear waste next to major lakes and rivers, but that is what senator reid got our president to do. under this administration, 35

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Bart Stupak: states will have to permanently store plutonium and other poisons. on long island sound, in the mississippi basin and throughout the great lakes. this policy writes the first