Political Quotes

“as a member of the House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee, I wanted to speak about a provision that was included in the subcommittee's version of the fiscal year 1997 Interior Appropriations bill--H.R. 3662--but is not incorporated in the fiscal year 1997 omnibus appropriations package. More specifically, I'm talking about Section 317 of H.R. 3662. Section 317 authorized and approved the U.S. Forest Service's approval of alternative site 2 as the location for the Large Binocular Telescope atop Mount Graham in southern Arizona. I asked that this provision be removed from the bill, and I'd like to explain why. I offered an identical amendment to the Omnibus Consolidated Recissions and Appropriations Act of 1996. Section 335 of the bill amended Public Law 100-696, the Arizona-Idaho Conservation Act of 1988 [AICA] by permitting the use of a location as Alternative Site 2 on Emerald Peak on Mt. Graham for the construction of the Large Binocular Telescope. The Large Binocular Telescope [LBT], is the last of the first three telescopes authorized by the Arizona-Idaho Conservation Act.”