What we have here with brownfields are situations overwhelmingly where a private sector entity made money by producing certain goods and then went out of business, moved away, moved overseas and left behind quite literally a physical problem in the city. What we are saying here is we are recognizing that the public sector has to step in and clean that up.
(U.S. House of Representatives, December 13, 2005)

"It's clearly a disgrace to the federal government that the cleaning up of Superfund sites by the private sector entity has disappeared. In every case, you're talking about the public stepping in with tax money to clean up a mess made by the private sector."
(New Bedford Standard-Times, December 11, 2005)

"This huge reduction for the state revolving fund is outrageous...You cannot push through huge tax increases in a time of war without cutting back on important domestic programs."

[Frank] called [the amendment] "a perfect illustration of the impossible position the Republican budget polices have put us in." [He] said there should be an overall increase in the amount of money available for these two important programs "rather than a wrestling match between two important programs that help serve the same purpose."
(New Bedford Standard-Times, May 24, 2005).