Political Quotes

“This total project, including the Salton Sea and the New River, is going to create one of the biggest wetlands in the United States. This is great news for people that love wildfowl and waterfowl and all the bird species. There are some 380 bird species that utilize the Salton Sea. As the gentleman from California (Mr. Duke Cunningham) said, it is a major piece of the Pacific flyway. It is a stop-over. In Imperial Valley, in fact, we actually have a bird festival, a waterfowl and bird festival, that attracts now thousands of people because the south end of the Salton Sea is one place where they stop on that sojourn from Canada, in some cases down to Mexico, in other cases all the way down to Central and South America. We are going to build, along the 50 miles of desert river, from where New River enters the United States at Calexico and Mexicali, we are going to build 50 miles of marshes. And through those marshes we are going to sift New River.”