Political Quotes

“I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Chairman, this amendment is an important amendment in that it tries to ensure that mitigation banks and other types of mitigation mechanisms are viable options to be able to build projects. In some cases, you have unavoidable impacts. We need to be able to have options to mitigate for those impacts so we can truly build projects. I commend the gentleman from Ohio for raising this issue, for bringing this up. I do think that we need to continue working on refining the text a little bit and working together in a bipartisan manner with our friends on the other side of the aisle to get this to a place where everyone can agree. Again, I think it is an important issue for us to address to ensure that mitigation credits are actually accessible, and I want to see if the gentleman will be willing to withdraw the amendment with the understanding that we are going to work with him to ensure that we can address this issue moving forward through the legislative process. Mr. DeFAZIO. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the balance of my time.”