Dale Bumpers: “I wanted to do was to read into the Record a list of organizations that support this amendment: Taxpayers for Common…”

“I wanted to do was to read into the Record a list of organizations that support this amendment: Taxpayers for Common Sense, National Parks and Conservation Associations, National Audubon Society, National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, Friends of the Earth, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, National Wildlife Federation, National Wildlife Refuge Association, Alaska Coalition, Alaska Wilderness League, American Public Power Association, Defenders of Wildlife, Greenpeace, National Resources Defense Council, Northern Alaska Environmental Center and the Sierra Club. Now, those are mostly environmental groups, some in Alaska, and I can tell you what they are concerned about. Some of these people are just concerned about the sale of power marketing administrations, but most of these organizations are worried about the sales of wildlife refuges; they are concerned about selling off national forests; and they are concerned about selling national parks. If you think that is farfetched, just bear in mind there is a bill already in the House to set up a commission to do exactly that, to report back to us on the national parks we do not need and that can be sold.”