As time passes, the value of this dead timber declines, until after a year or so it becomes unsalvageable.

If you want timely salvage operations in Yosemite or anywhere else in the country--if that's really your goal--fund the Government.

Four hundred miles of roads are now in jeopardy. If nearby trees are not removed before winter, we can expect dead trees to begin toppling, risking lives and closing access.

The critical issue before us is the level of spending, since the level of spending automatically sets the combined level of current and future taxes.

But even factoring that out, just in nominal terms, 60 percent increase in Federal spending in 4 years is rather breathtaking.

That is an example of what I like to call McClintock's third law of political physics, which is the more we invest in our mistakes, the less willing we are to admit them.

The greater restraint in spending, the greater overall economic growth these nations have had.

It seems to me they are two sides of the same coin, that deficits are taxes.

Coolidge, Truman, Kennedy, Reagan, Clinton all cut spending relative to GDP.

My previous district included the Klamath River. When I was first invited up there to take a look at it, the Administration is pushing to tear down four perfectly good hydroelectric dams because of what they describe as a catastrophic…

My point is that fish hatcheries, appear to me, to play an absolutely central role in assuring abundant populations of all species, including those regulated under Magnuson-Stevens.

What we are suggesting is supplementing the populations with hatchery born fish to assure abundant populations.