Re: Congression competence.

[Muckerheide <muckerheide@attbi.com>]

Hey. You can't show an congressperson is an idiot!

Regards, Jim



on 9/18/02 11:59 AM, Don Jordan at ramservices@LSOL.NET wrote:



> Some years ago I posted to Radsafe the verbatim testimony of Congressman

> Nick Rahall regarding clean-up standards.  When the questioner asked Mr.

> Rahall if he thought it sensible to, say, attempt to clean up a site to

> standards that were lower than background, Mr. Rahall replied that there was

> no background radiation in his state.

> 

> After the nature of background radiation was explained (accurately) to him,

> Mr. Rahall reaffirmed that he was sure there was no such thing as background

> radiation in his state of West Virginia.  If the old archives (ca. 1996) are

> still available, you can dig up the original post.  [I don't have it, and no

> longer have a Federal Depository Library across the street to look it up

> again.]

> 

> Since Mr. Rahall has been in the news recently assuring us that there are no

> WMD in Iraq, his testimony may be of current interest.

> 

> 

> Don Jordan

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