Peter Deutsch: “This is a great day, not just for the Everglades in South Florida but really for Florida and America and truly the…”

“This is a great day, not just for the Everglades in South Florida but really for Florida and America and truly the entire country. This is Congress at its best, really doing the work of the American people in creating legislation that really is protecting our future for ourselves, our children, and our grandchildren. This bill is truly historic. This is one of the historic days over the 200-year history of this country and of this Congress. We are about to pass the largest ecosystem restoration project in the history of the world, in the history of the world. It is a $7.8 billion restoration project for the Florida Everglades. There is only one Everglades in the world. It happens to be in South Florida. It is the Everglades; it is the River of Grass. It is a 100-mile wide river that is only about a foot deep that flows, that is just absolutely spectacular. I urge all of my colleagues to try to spend not just an hour, not just a day but maybe a week traveling through the Everglades to really appreciate the unique place on the planet Earth that it is.”