Political Quotes

“Again may I congratulate those that are offering these amendments. If we did not have this fragile house of cards put together, this would be very attractive because my State is owned right now 94 percent by the Federal Government. By the way, I do not think any land is being bought by the Federal Government, although there are some that do want to sell to the Federal Government. The money is not available. They are inholdings. Of course some of the inholdings very frankly do not want to sell and I am supporting them because I do not think the government ought to purchase those lands from an unwilling seller. But I do know I have those Members within some of our parks that were created by this Congress which I opposed and refuges that want to sell, and the appropriators do not appropriate the money to purchase the lands. I do not think that is fair because those people that own those inholdings do not have an opportunity to develop the lands, and they do not have the opportunity to really sell their lands, because nobody wants to buy them. I think we ought to appropriate the money and CARA would allow that.”