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Norman D. Dicks: “For many years I have supported the Youth Conservation Corps, which has been a tremendous organization. Our national…”

On the recordJune 20, 2000
For many years I have supported the Youth Conservation Corps, which has been a tremendous organization. Our national parks, our national forests, the Fish and Wildlife Service, these young people are out there doing tremendously credible things in our public lands. Again, this is a program that we had to fight to save during the Reagan and Bush administrations. For some reason, these programs get targeted when we need to be doing these things. We need to be cleaning up these areas. The Campaign to Keep America Beautiful has kind of fallen on deaf ears here in this new generation. We need to explain to people again how important that is, and here are our young people out there doing this good work. I am stunned that we are again trying to take the funding out for this program. I think it is one of the President's finest accomplishments.
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Discussing the importance of the Youth Conservation Corps and its funding during a committee meeting.

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