Frank Riggs

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…

Colleagues, first of all, in this very brief 2 minutes, I want to address something the gentleman from Washington [Mr. Dicks] said during debate on the rule. He said that my amendment in the full Committee on Appropriations last week to…

Does the gentleman's letter that he is reading from now make any mention of the nine other property owners who are affected by the marbled murrelet designation?

if the gentleman would give me an opportunity to finish, there are nine property owners who own collectively 8,000 acres. And I am going to introduce in the debate to come, on the gentleman's motion to strike, letters from these property…

I want to point out that she obviously did not read the bill, because on page 47 of the bill, section 116, beginning at line 3, we have the language of my amendment, and it says: None of the funds made available in this act may be used by…

I just want to get on the record right now how absurd that contention is. According to the Fish and Wildlife Service, there are an estimated 18,000 to 35,000 murrelets in Washington, Oregon, and California alone, with several hundred…

If we reduce the number of timber sales on Federal forestlands, we reduce the number of timber sales receipts. That is pretty easy to follow. If we reduce the number of timber sales receipts, we reduce funding for reforestation, salvage…

This comes right out of the GAO report. As we talked about earlier, I also want to point out that one of the reasons that we have so-called below cost sales is because we do not salvage or harvest these trees in a timely manner. They begin…

A position so extreme, that says we should not even harvest a dead, dying, or diseased tree?

Did I understand correctly the Sierra Club, the most moderate mainstream environmental organization, the one that enjoys the most moderate mainstream image of all environmental organizations, voted recently two to one to completely ban all…

This is not an endangered species debate. Instead, it is about the core differences here between those who seek to protect the rights of private property owners, including some longtime ranch families, and those who have little concern…

let me say again for the Record that Pacific Lumber Company was told by the Federal Government, quote, that the only kind of permissible activities it will allow on its privately owned marbled murrelet habitat would be noncommercial…

I have to rebut this contention. I have to ask the gentleman from Washington [Mr. Dicks] if he has had any personal contact with top level officials of the Pacific Lumber Company.

The marbled murrelet is a sea bird which is also of great concern to fishermen because under the ESA our industry must go to extraordinary and sometimes expensive lengths to avoid even accidental 'take' of the bird in commercial fishing…

The reason I am offering it, I will be very clear again, is that we are talking about 10 property owners, 4 different companies and 6 small ranches. That is why. And because the principle involved here is the fifth amendment of the Bill of…

And the two gentlemen from California who have been most outspoken, Mr. Stark and Mr. Miller, voted for that bill?

I notice that our friend, the gentleman from New York [Mr. Boehlert], when he was talking about the environmental organizations that have endorsed my colleague's amendment skipped right over the Sierra Club, and yet I am looking at an…

You do not come to us. Instead you rise on the floor in a very high-minded fashion, but you do not consult those of us who represent these districts which are disproportionately impacted by these well-intentioned amendments on the House…

I will simply point out that my colleagues, I know they are sincere about this, my colleagues who are behind this, they have not come to those of us who represent these congressional districts to discuss this. You might talk to inside the…

Yes, the gentleman is correct, if the gentleman will continue to yield. If we do not permit any new roads into roadless areas, if we do not permit new sales, then obviously timber sale receipts are going to decline and the distribution of…

Would that be roughly equal to the 1.3 billion that the gentleman from Florida just claimed was the actual outlay by Federal taxpayers for this program?

the gentleman is aligned in the green scissors coalition with the Sierra Club which has now taken the position of favoring a complete ban on all foresting on Federal forest lands.

Is it not a fact that a lot of the timber that we are attempting to harvest on Federal forest lands declines in merchantable value, or loses its monetary value altogether because of our inability to get these sales out, because of our…

is it not a fact that some of our friends concerned about so-called below costs sales and concerned about taxpayer subsidies are the same people who are opposed to allowing any kind of expedited logging on our forest lands, including the…

after much debate we finally found a point to agree on. This is probably the most important private property rights vote that we will have in the 104th Congress, and that is what this is about. Since 99 percent of the designated habitat is…