Sonny Bono: “I am a little bit disturbed about something I heard earlier in the remarks by one of my colleagues from California when…”

“I am a little bit disturbed about something I heard earlier in the remarks by one of my colleagues from California when he said that he bowed under pressure that he was facing from certain environmental groups to go ahead and support the Miller-Brown substitute. What about pressure from ordinary people? What about pressure from people who live near the Salton Sea within the 44th district of California? What about pressure from those people, not the pressure from people who live inside the Beltway, who live inside Washington here? Who cares about how we are going to be rated on a score card if this is what is, in fact, right. And it is. One of my greatest political mentors is Bruce Herschson. He said something brilliant. He said, one day as a Member of Congress you might have that vote that comes before you that you know is right. You know you are going to have to make that vote and know that it might cost you something. Perhaps this is that vote for my colleague here. I am deeply concerned about the Miller substitute for a number of reasons.”