John Doolittle: “That was a bailout for Charles Hurwitz. That was OK in that day. Today Mr. Hurwitz is the subject of attack. I fought…”

“That was a bailout for Charles Hurwitz. That was OK in that day. Today Mr. Hurwitz is the subject of attack. I fought Mr. Hamburg on this, by the way. I just want to point out when you want to shoot the rich, Mr. Hurwitz, it is the working person that takes the bullet. Here is a book on the Pacific Lumber Co. You heard they now have 1,600 employees, up by over 500 from when the merger occurred. You have the Blakeleys and the Andersons. You have the Phillips, a number of people, a whole book. These are flesh and blood people that work for a living. They are not the Fortune 500. They are people that get up every morning and go to work and they are thankful they have a job. And this mean-spirited attack is going to basically throw these people out of work, just as has happened in my district with the shutting down of timber, and in the district of the gentleman from California [Mr. Herger] as well as the district of the gentleman from California [Mr. Riggs], and a number of districts throughout the Northwest. And here the Clinton administration comes again. They are everybody's friend. Just like they did in their great timber summit, we lost two-thirds of the timber jobs; and with their growth proposal, we went to four-fifths of the jobs that were lost. I do not want that to happen to this area. These people are too important.”