Political Quotes

“one of the appropriations bills we have yet to act upon is the Interior appropriations bill, as Senator Thomas pointed out. He comes from the State of Wyoming. I come from the State of Arizona. Practically every State west of the Mississippi is significantly impacted by this bill because, as I am sure you are well aware, Mr. President, coming from the State of Montana, more than a third of this Nation's lands are owned by the Federal Government. Most of those are in the western United States. Many of those lands are under the jurisdiction of the Department of the Interior. This is an extraordinarily important bill for the people of our States. I just want to discuss one aspect of it that is very important for my State of Arizona and other States in the western United States. We have a very difficult condition in our national forests now. They have been probably--I think it is not too strong a term--``mismanaged'' over the years. It has been a combination of things.…”