On the recordJune 20, 1996
I would like him to note that the legislation was the result of 5 months of open legislative debate, lots of give and take, because some of us were involved in those meetings between the administration and the Congress. It expedites the procedures by which agencies, the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service, salvage dead and dying trees nationwide and it insulates from judicial challenge green timber sales prepared under the President's own forest plan, the Northwest Forest Plan, which has already been found by the courts to comply with environmental laws. So what is going on here? The most liberal allies of the administration, those who pander to the extreme fringe of the environmental movement, are applying pressure on the President to reconsider the legislation he signed into law and renege on the commitment he has made to the people of the Northwest in our timber-reliant towns and our timber-reliant counties.
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