Sam Farr: “Look, you have been able to build almost this entire fence without the waiving of any environmental laws. The record…”

“Look, you have been able to build almost this entire fence without the waiving of any environmental laws. The record that the gentleman showed there just a moment ago gave the Attorney General the authority to waive NEPA and ESEA. You are now going into a whole complicated series of laws, including the protection of Bald Eagles, Indian rights and things like that, Superfund issues. I have been involved with these issues for a long, long time, living on the coast. And I will tell the gentleman that what he is opening up is a can of worms for lawsuits and complaints and so on. This is not the wise way to go with this amendment, and I object to the amendment and will ask for a recorded vote on it.”