Mark Udall: “I ran across the following from a report in 1978. The subcommittee, it says, has noted the eloquent statements of a…”

“I ran across the following from a report in 1978. The subcommittee, it says, has noted the eloquent statements of a number of prominent Alaskans about the idea of building a pipeline across the coastal plain, and the report quotes the senior Senator from Alaska who told the Council on Environmental Quality, some have appropriately compared the idea with slicing a razor blade across the face of the Mona Lisa. I am not saying the Senator from Alaska would support this amendment. I am sure he would not, but in the spirit of what Teddy Roosevelt said when he saw the Grand Canyon, "This is God's handiwork; we cannot improve on it," let us let the wildlife refuge be. We cannot improve on it. Support the Markey-Johnson amendment.”