Political Quotes

“Woman, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Chair, I would point out that Mr. Tipton offered 10 amendments in the Rules Committee, only three of which were adopted. There were seven amendments right there that were not even brought to the floor for debate. I think that that is unfortunate. Madam Chairman, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. McClintock) who is the ranking member on the Subcommittee on Water, Oceans, and Wildlife on the Natural Resources Committee. {time} 1845 Mr. McCLINTOCK. Madam Chair, I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Chairwoman, when I chaired the Public Lands Subcommittee, we set three overarching principles for the management of our public lands: to restore public access to the public lands, to restore good management to the public lands, and to restore the Federal Government as a good neighbor to those communities directly impacted by the public lands. This bill appears to me to be the opposite of all of these principles. It closes off public use and access, it consigns our lands to a policy of neglect, and it thumbs our nose at the wishes of many of the people in the affected region. H.R. 823 is a lopsided bill that offers a comparatively small, 28,000 acres, for motorized access versus roughly 400,000 acres of new wilderness enclosures. So 7 percent of the land is provided for motorized access and 93 percent of the land is closed to that access.…”