Political Quotes

“today I offer a bill to expand the boundary of the Weir Farm National Historic Site in the State of Connecticut. This language will authorize the National Park Service to acquire the last two remaining undeveloped parcels of the historic Weir Farm that remain in private ownership. It will not require additional funding authority or appropriations to do so. While these parcels were a part of the historic Weir Farm and were identified as such when the State of Connecticut and the Trust for Public Land began acquiring the land that eventually became the Weir Farm National Historic Site, the Federal legislation that designated the site moved more quickly than the negotiations between the owners of the parcels in question, the State and the Trust for Public Land. Not wanting to include land from an owner who was unwilling to be so included within the boundaries of a National Park Site, the sponsors of the enabling legislation removed these parcels from the boundary maps. The legislation I introduce today was prompted by a recent agreement between the owner of the land, the recent acquisition of the land by the Trust for Public Land, and the expressed interest by the National Park Service of acquiring the land. The funds to do so have already been appropriated, so no new funding authority or appropriations would be required. Moving forward with this acquisition would preclude development of these last remaining privately owned undeveloped parcels.”