Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I too rise in opposition to this amendment. It has been stated that four times as many people visit our beaches as visit the national parks in our country. What do people dream about? They dream about going to the beach. If they talk about their retirement, they talk about being on a beach someplace. People want to basically be on beaches. We have many beaches in Delaware that are probably as popular in these buildings around here as any beaches in the entire country. Foreign visitors want to come to beaches in the United States of America. There is tremendous economic production from the beaches that we have across this country, a huge tax benefit, up to 180 times the Federal share that is involved in paying for the beach replenishment which we have. If we did not have this replenishment, it would be almost impossible to have these dreams, to have the ability to offer our beaches to people around the United States of America. It also protects our migrant birds, which come into my State and come into some other States. It protects us from major storms. And there is huge population growth across the United States of America from our beaches back inland, because people like to be able to access and go to the beaches of our country. This, unfortunately, is an amendment which is wrong-headed in terms of what it does, and we should defeat it.”