Jack Kingston: “I wish the people who are pushing CARA, $2.8 billion a year in Federal acquisition money for 15 years, could tell us.…”

“I wish the people who are pushing CARA, $2.8 billion a year in Federal acquisition money for 15 years, could tell us. The point is, we are concerned on behalf of our State governments, on behalf of private landowners that this is a Federal Government land grab, and we are very concerned about that. Mr. Chairman, I am a member of the Subcommittee on Interior of the Committee on Appropriations, and as the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Saxton) says, colleagues come to our committee every year for this land in New Jersey and we have been supporting it. We will continue to support it under the Tancredo-Pombo amendment. What is wrong with that? That is the constitutional process laid out by our Founding Fathers in 1789. But suddenly, that is not good enough. We have to have this new law. I urge my colleagues to look at this very carefully.”