WALLY HERGER: “OK; that is what I thought. I reclaim my time. It ends on the end of calendar year 1998. That is 1/2 years from the…”

“OK; that is what I thought. I reclaim my time. It ends on the end of calendar year 1998. That is 1/2 years from the day. That does nothing to help future floods. And I might mention this study that was done was asked for in 1986 after another flood there, which I am sure the gentleman from New York may have fought us doing something about then. We did a study that determined the levee that broke where Mrs. Anderson was drowned, the Corps of Engineers in 1990 said that there will be a loss of life unless this levee is repaired. For 6 years the Corps of Engineers jumped through hoops trying to mitigate for an elderberry plant, and, no I will not--tried to mitigate for this. This is serious. We had three people drown in our district because of those who have taken over the environmental movement, and it will not even allow for simple commonsense legislation that puts people, puts people ahead of endangered species. All we are talking about is repairing levees.”