09/18/2023
https://congress.gov...
"The moral of the story here is this bill would pull back hundreds of millions of dollars in funding for wildlife and habitat conservation."
"I am old enough to remember that incident. And it seems to me that this was not EPA's mine. As I recall, there was a deadbeat mine owner, a problem we have faced throughout the country with abandoned ..."
"We know for sure that under this bill there are going to be some cuts: $1.4 billion rescinded from the IRA and IIJA."
"Would you rather have $1.3 billion of guaranteed funding every year, or $320 million in discretionary authorizations, which is not guaranteed, for 5 years and then it sunsets?"