Barney Frank: “No. I take my time back to say this. That is simply inaccurate, for this reason: The original bill did not say if it is…”

“No. I take my time back to say this. That is simply inaccurate, for this reason: The original bill did not say if it is against the law in all these other areas and if it is a nuisance in the wetland and environmental area. What the gentleman has done is to narrow the scope of the law as it applies to the areas which would still apply because without that language, without that language, any State law violation would lead to no compensation even if it was under the Federal Wetland Act or Federal Endangered Species Act. Under the gentleman's language, if you are proceeding under the Wetlands or Endangered Species or the agricultural subsidy program, anything that violated State law would not defeat the claim for compensation unless it was a State law that defines it as a nuisance.”