Charles Taylor

In this year's bill we have appropriated $500 million more to the city than was appropriated last year. So we have not denied this city financially. It has always been a question of management, not money. In fact, every day you read about…

No, I am pointing out that Congress had an experience in Philadelphia where they determined as a body, and it was enacted and in the Constitution in the beginning, deliberately wanting to have control of the capital city. It was not a…

I appreciate you entrusting me with the task of working on the education provisions of the District of Columbia Appropriations bill. This is tough work. Washington is a world capital, but the educational opportunities for the District's…

Despite all the loud rhetoric we have heard today, this chairman holds the people of DC in respect. That is why I have so suffered the editorials and the charges in the press, and I sometimes wonder whether the editorial writers are…

I want to also thank the members of my subcommittee... It provides scholarship choice for Washington, DC students.

It would mandate, though, if the need were there, it would restrict us in a way that we would not have the freedom of making that decision. If it was not a question of shifting or if we needed more resources in areas as we mentioned a…

It would be difficult without reviewing the entire bill to see. It may be, more than a cut, it may be a shift in resources might be needed more than a cut itself.

I hear time and time again from the other side they are for salvage sales. We had salvage sales. Then we had an appeals process that rendered salvage sales useless because the appeals would go on for years. Most of us know this timber has…

Exactly. The Sierra Club came out recently with a vote two to one against any cutting on government forest lands altogether.

Reclaiming my time, certainly in the area of salvage that is true, because the appeal process is getting so long now many companies will not give a high bid for government timber because the process is so lengthy.

Reclaiming my time, what you are saying is the roads are built to government specifications. They either give you the credit for building the roads, or your bid is going to be lower because you are only going to pay a certain amount for…

To summarize I would say that to say that we are losing money by our timber harvest is not true. The homebuilders, the realtors, people who rely on the forest products to build homes know that it is not true and they know it is important…

If that is absolutely essential, then have we considered the taking and compensating? We are considering the taking. Then can we consider the compensation of the individuals, not just this individual, but the other ranchers and other…

Is it really essential; in other words, is the marbled murrelet going to be destroyed if this 1 percent is not in?

You were mentioning California. We are happy to accept in North Carolina those companies that leave.

Yes. How will we have served the people in this country is they lose their job? Then they will have neither health care nor a job. And I do not see how we move people ahead with that kind of draconian action.