"This bill would establish a National Heritage Area in the Delta in order to protect the largest estuary on the West Coast."
"It seems to me that this directed energy issue is extremely important, has extraordinary potential."
"It seems to me that we are shorting an extremely important program in the directed energy that many members of your subcommittee are interested in."
"We must clarify the existing law to guarantee that due process rights for every American are protected."
"We need more comprehensive--not from you, but from us--energy policy."
"We have challenges because of the fact that we are having these places as icons of America."
"Is it not a fact that we are hundreds of millions of dollars behind in maintenance at the National Parks?"
"Most everything that occurs, there are winners and there are losers. And the task at hand is to find a way in which there are winners and winners."
"We say, 'Do this,' 'Do that,' and then we don't give you enough money to get it done rapidly."
"Insufficient money, insufficient direction, and too many things to do with too little money. That is our problem, and we create it, and we could change that."
"if we want to do something besides just yak back and forth across these various hearings we could focus on innovative solutions such as this one that you have just recommended."
"This hearing and the debate going on here is, I don't know, the 27th year, the 30th year of it."