On the recordSeptember 29, 1995
the new majority came here with a call they were going to run this place like a business. Well, I do not know of any business or any family who would run their business as we are running the natural resources of this country. Mr. Speaker, think about the term ``below-cost timber sales.'' We sell timber at a price that is inadequate to recoup the Government's cost. We sell minerals at a price that no family, that no business would give them away for. If we were a wealthy institution, and with all our fiscal problems this is a wealthy country, if we were impoverished, we would not sell things below cost. We certainly would not take our children's and grandchildren's assets and dispose of them in some fire sale that would destroy the land in many instances, but certainly not bring any profit. Mr. Speaker, this is bad business; it is bad government; it is bad stewardship. Support the gentleman's motion.
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