Political Quotes

“Madam President, yesterday, we had a series of successful votes to move forward on the Great American Outdoors Act. I am excited with the votes we have taken last week and the votes last night and that we will finally move to passage of the legislation, the Great American Outdoors Act, tomorrow. I urge my colleagues to support this bill. We had the opportunity over the last several weeks--last week, in particular--to talk about what it means for every State in the country, what it means for every county in the country, and the significant opportunity for conservation, which is the crown jewel of conservation programs and, of course, our national parks. It is not just national parks, of course. It is our forests, and it is our BLM grounds and the efforts we have with the Bureau of Indian Education. I thought I would talk specifically about some Colorado projects today and what the Land and Water Conservation Fund has meant for Colorado. This is a photo of Wilson Peak in Colorado. It rises over Telluride in southwest Colorado. Wilson Peak is one of the 54 mountains in Colorado that top 14,000 feet. Climbers and hikers eager to summit the 14,500-foot peak, located in the Lizard Head Wilderness, have been frustrated for years by key land access routes being blocked, which made it impossible to get to. In addition, Wilson Peak long remained the last ``fourteener'' in Colorado without public access.…”