Political Quotes

“I respond to my friend, we not only have a danger of the listing, but to this Senator a real concern about not listing. If we wait too long--and that is what we are doing in this instance. I indicated we have 243 that are waiting to be listed. We need to proceed. Not listing is a concern. I also say to my friend from Nebraska, in a Nickles-Reid amendment that was adopted by this body 100 to 0 last year, which was an amendment to the Comprehensive Regulatory Reform Act which we received from the House of Representatives, we said that if there is a regulation promulgated by a Federal Agency that has a certain financial impact, we in Congress would have 45 days to look at that, and if we did not like it, we could rescind it legislatively. That is, I am quite certain, going to come back when we do regulation reform in the next few days. So under that proposal, if something happened like listing an endangered species in Las Vegas that certainly had a financial impact on the level Senator Nickles and I talked about, in that instance, we would have had the ability in Congress, if the action had been grievous enough, to rescind the action of the Fish and Wildlife Service.”