On the recordJanuary 23, 1995
If you really want to use my property, if you really need my property to accomplish this national goal of wetlands protection or endangered species protection, my position is you as a people, all of us as a people ought to be willing to compensate me for that property taken from me. I ought not to have to bear that cost as a little landowner in my own State. So when a national policy is designed to protect something we all need protected cross State lines, this law, as it is now proposed, and as we should pass it, should simply say if we want to do that, we can and we should. We simply ought to put the money up to accomplish those purposes.
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