Political Quotes

“These organizations represent labor, agriculture, port facilities, flood control districts, and others. They are located in areas as distant as the States of Washington, Louisiana, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania. Since this letter was signed, additional groups have asked to join with us in our position in support of section 103. They include the Minnesota Association of Cooperatives, the St. Louis Building and Construction Trades Council, the Minnesota Farm Bureau, the Minnesota Soybean Growers Association, and the Minnesota Corn Growers Association. In Missouri, our Department of Natural Resources supports section 103. They oppose raising the spring river height, and they are just as knowledgeable and just as dedicated as the so-called experts at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service who want to jump over the process and impose their particular risky scheme on our State and all the downstream States. I had a very enlightening week traveling from the northwest corner of my State, down the Missouri and the Mississippi Rivers, talking with real people, knowledgeable people, scientists, and experts about this proposal.”