Brandon Williams: “I say to the President: Mr. President, this bill is probably going to get to your desk. On behalf of the West, sir, veto…”

“I say to the President: Mr. President, this bill is probably going to get to your desk. On behalf of the West, sir, veto it and send it back. This bill is bad for the West. This bill is bad for the public's land, because it has in it a terrible bias toward extractive industry, an unconscionable bias. This bill does break our word to the first Americans. America's Indian people are the least well-housed, have the highest infant mortality rate, they suffer the highest unemployment rates, they have the least length of time in which they live. This bill is going to make it worse for them. Mr. Speaker, I again say: Please, Mr. President, veto it. This bill gives away our natural resources, particularly in the West, at bargain basement prices. It mandates timber volumes in sensitive forests. The boys in the board room are getting their greed satisfied with this bill. Mr. Speaker, I say: Mr. President, veto it. Jim Watt must be smiling. He could have written this bill. Mr. President, veto this bill. Mr. Speaker, I again say: Mr. President, out our way, we like the National Endowment for the Arts. This bill cuts that agency almost 40 percent in the next year. And what is worse, it applies Government censorship to the grants. In the West, we do not like censorship. Mr. Speaker, I say: Mr. President, veto this bill.”