Richard Pombo: “Reclaiming my time, I think we went far enough when we went to 10 percent. I mean, I was trying to be nice about that.…”

“Reclaiming my time, I think we went far enough when we went to 10 percent. I mean, I was trying to be nice about that. In regard to another comment that was made about zeroing in on environmental laws, I would just like to point out that when this was before Judiciary, that it was all Federal regulations; the compromise that was worked out involved the Federal regulations that provide about 90 percent of our problems. The other 10 percent we are going to have to take care of in other legislation. But the whole attempt here is being undermined, I believe, by moving the threshold to 30, because the Constitution is clear that you cannot take private property without compensating for it, whether at 10 or 30 or 50 or whatever number you want to plug in. And because we are setting up a different method of being reimbursed, a different method of being compensated, I felt that it was important that we do that.”