House Proceeding on Mar 12th, 2009 :: 0:34:20 to 0:35:00
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Michael Arcuri: congress it's not a surprise. just the way the majority conducts business. i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves his time. the gentleman from new york. mr. arcuri: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, obviously my colleague from the rules committee mentioned that this bill is costly. you know, there's no question there is a cost associated with

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Speech By: Michael Arcuri

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Michael Arcuri: clean water, but i would submit that, how do you put a price tag on clean water? how do you put a price tag on keeping the water that your family drinks and the water that is so important to life on this planet clean? there is no real price tag that you put on it. in my own county we're currently $that's oneida county in new york, we're under a consent order from the state of

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Michael Arcuri: new york to eliminate sewage overflows that goes into our rivers during storms it would be $150 million for our small community to fix our water system, but it's necessary for us to do that. i would submit without projects such as local communities