Pete Domenici: “I hope that, with reference to a cloture that will take this amendment down, Senators will not do that. We have not had…”

“I hope that, with reference to a cloture that will take this amendment down, Senators will not do that. We have not had very much time. It is a very important and easy-to-understand issue. It will be confronted with an opposition amendment, which we have not seen yet, that will be forthcoming by the majority leader and, perhaps, Senator Bingaman. Both of them are moving in a direction of modifying the existing environmental laws that don't let us remove certain kinds of trees from our forests that are, by most people, determined to be the kind of trees you should remove. They either result in a burndown, or have the result of what is called a blowdown where whole portions of a forest are blown over, or they have just accumulated and are not growing because there is so much rubbish left over that you cannot get the Sun to do any good. When the fires come, they go from one place to another, right over the top of trees.”