Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to this amendment. This amendment includes the Grand Canyon Protection Act, falsely named legislation, which has nothing to do with the Grand Canyon and is a cover for a giant Federal land grab that hurts our economy and our national security. This land grab of over one million acres in my State will destroy as many as 4,000 jobs and cost $29 billion in sacrificed economic activity. Now, I am perplexed that the majority would bring this up under the National Defense Authorization as this reckless land grab actually hurts our national security. We heard from the gentleman from Colorado that these are areas where we have some high grade uranium. In fact, the costarter of Greenpeace, Michael Shellenberger, has actually said that if you want a green economy like the other side does, you definitely have to have nuclear, and this is one of those ways. But we constantly keep going down this road where we make ourselves dependent on other countries, like Russia, Uzbekistan, and those areas. Isn't it interesting that we want to subjugate ourselves to foreign interests and foreign oversight? That is not the way we should be doing it. We should have our own way of doing it. Last but not least, the way uranium is actually leached into the atmosphere is by air and by water, which are the portals that these breccia pipes have contained.…”