Political Quotes

“I serve as the ranking member of one of the subcommittees of the Environment and Public Works Committee, over which there is jurisdiction of the bill introduced by the Senator from Texas. I, in good faith, dealt with the chairman of the full committee and the chairman the subcommittee to work out a procedure to have hearings on her legislation. I was afraid something like this would happen, and it appears it has. If this is how we are going to do business, I am going to be real upset in the future in entering into any agreements on the Environment Committee of which I have any dealings. I am going to be as mischievous as I can on this floor. I dealt with the full committee chairman and the subcommittee chairman so that we could expedite a hearing on the bill of the Senator from Texas, have a full committee markup, and report this to the floor. Now if we, probably because of the procedure set up here, do not have the votes to table this, I personally am going to get as many of my colleagues as I can, if this amendment is adopted to this bill, as important as it is, I am going to do everything within my power to get the President to veto this bill so that we can come back here and do things the right way. I have stated numerous times that I believe the Endangered Species Act needs some work done on it. The State of Nevada is affected as much as any other State. We are fourth in line as to endangered species listings.”