Political Quotes

“I spoke this afternoon about the need to put fiscal year 1996 appropriation issues behind us. With today's momentous vote on H.R. 3019 we have accomplished this. I wanted to speak a little more about an amendment I authored during markup of the Interior appropriations bill, and which is included in section 335 of the Interior Department portion of H.R. 3019. The Kolbe amendment on Mount Graham is quite simple. It states that alternative site 2, which was issued by the Forest Service, is authorized and approved, and that the site--alternate 2--shall be deemed to be consistent with and permissible under the terms of the Arizona-Idaho Conservation Act of 1988 (AICA), Public Law 100-696. What does this mean? The Kolbe amendment reaffirms what many people believed; that the alternative site chosen by the Forest Service for the location of the large binocular telescope [LBT] is in compliance with the authorizing language.”