Political Quotes

“the language agreed to by the conferees and the President directs the Secretary to: first, maintain the land base of the 1992 Tongass Land Management Plan--1.7 million acres--for timber for 1 year; and second, release the enjoined AWRTA sales. The President may waive either or both of these requirements. If he so chooses, he triggers a $110 million appropriation over 4 years--fiscal years 1996-99--for timber worker employment, community development, and to replace lost timber sale receipts. I want to extend to my colleague, Senator Stevens, well deserved credit for protecting the people of southeast Alaska and penalizing the administration for not meeting its obligations under the Tongass Timber Reform Act of 1990 to sustain the timber dependent communities of southeast Alaska. And I want to thank all of my colleagues, particularly Senator Hatfield and Senator Gorton, for standing by us in the fact of Clinton administration recalcitrance, ignorance about the conditions in Alaska, and extreme prejudice about sustainable forest management.”