Jerry Lewis: “Mr. Chairman, frankly I was a little disconcerted there a moment ago, for throughout this debate I have been wanting to…”

“Mr. Chairman, frankly I was a little disconcerted there a moment ago, for throughout this debate I have been wanting to mention the name of California's senior Senator, Mrs. Feinstein from California, but I did not think our rules allowed it, but since our chairman used it, the senior Senator has been very much involved in this catastrophe we are talking about today, and I wanted to make sure the House was aware of that. Mr. Chairman, I would like to make it very clear to Members of the House that none of the four Members who were elected to represent the desert communities of California are opposed to desert wilderness or to desert planning or to adequate park availability or to supporting our monuments. Indeed, we have been involved in that very work for our careers. Mr. Chairman, I was the author of the first legislation in California to attempt to do something about people who abused the land and the vegetation of the desert.”