Political Quotes

“Thank you to my colleague from the Evergreen State. Twilight zone, partisan as can be, package of bad ideas for the Nation. Interesting phrases when you look at title IX. Title IX is about 10,500 acres adjacent to the city of Yerington. This 10,500 acres is a known copper and iron ore deposit since about 1975. On this 10,000 acres and in title IX, you are seeing nothing that waives anything of environmental significance, not NEPA, not the National Historic Preservation Act. The city's going to pay for the land. We're not giving it away. All the costs associated with transferring the land are to be borne, no cost to the government. The District and State Bureau of Land Management offices were silent in terms of this proposal. There are no mining issues, cleanup issues, surface water, groundwater, environmental, none of those issues, none at all, abandoned mine sites. And by the way, in this particular county, which is the leading county for unemployment in the State of Nevada, which I am sorry to inform you, we still lead the Nation in unemployment, this represents a transfer of less than 1 percent of Federal land in Lyon County. {time} 1500 So, when we talk about open space preservation, guess what? There is 99 percent left. Don't think you've got that one either. Oh, by the way, there were some concerns about 90 days being too soon to transfer this, and there were some concerns about whether it was mandatory or not. Did you hear the part about 1975 known deposits?…”