Richard Pombo: “we have a number of sacred sites which are located on national parks, on BLM land, on Forest Service land. How is it…”

“we have a number of sacred sites which are located on national parks, on BLM land, on Forest Service land. How is it going to be interpreted in the courts once a funding limitation is put in place that we cannot move forward with some things on those particular parks? It is not a negotiated settlement; it is not sitting down with the tribes and consulting and trying to work it out. What it is, the gentleman is demanding that no funds be used. That is what the gentleman's amendment does. I just do not believe that because of the process that this is going through, we have had the opportunity to hear out exactly how this is going to be interpreted by the administration and by the courts and where we are ultimately going to end up. I support the gentleman in what he is trying to do, but we cannot do this on an appropriations bill because we do not know what is going to come out of that. I just think it is a mistake to do it in this way.”