John Hansen: “let me point out that I have had an opportunity to look at the Sununu amendment, and I hope folks in their offices are…”

“let me point out that I have had an opportunity to look at the Sununu amendment, and I hope folks in their offices are listening to this because this is an interesting amendment. Mr. Chairman, this amendment, if Members are at all on the fence wondering if they should vote for ANWR or not, this puts Members on the side to vote for ANWR. This amendment secures the amount of acreage we are talking about. It puts it at the 2,000-acre level. And if Members went there, they would see this is a fraction of what we are looking at. All of the people saying, oh, my goodness, we are going to have the tentacles of this thing spread over the ANWR area. Well, the tentacles, if there ever was such a thing, have just been snapped off, and it is not going to happen. If we talk about an amendment that perfects what we have been doing, the gentleman has come up with one. It makes eminently good sense that we follow this. This should be the one that should make this an easy vote for a lot of folks.”