Political Quotes

“I did not sign the conference agreement because I am very strongly opposed to the bill. It is true that in many respects after the negotiations that have taken place over these last few days the bill is better than it was before the negotiations. But in my opinion, the bill is so bad it is not susceptible to correction. For example, it badly hurts the Indian people, their health, their education. It hurts the national parks by taking money from essential construction and moving it over to operations. It hurts the national forests by increasing the timber cut, by building timber roads in ancient forests and jeopardizing habitat, wetlands, and environment. It sounds the death knell for the Endowments for the Acts and the Humanities. And by its use of sufficiency language in various paragraphs of the bill, it deprives the public from participating in the decisions that it would want to make in connection with the environment. There are many other deficiencies in the bill. Time does not permit going into them.”