Political Quotes

“We just completed debate on the salvage timber, and the package offered by Senator Bingaman is, at best, described as yet another example of a mindset that prevails here in Washington, DC. Yesterday, I stated in this body that in order to answer that question, we, this generation--this generation--if we are to hand over to the next generation, our children and our grandchildren, a better Earth than we were handed, a world that will sustain them and their daily needs for food and fiber, we have to approach the way the Federal Government writes rules and regulates them. In the salvage logging debate, there were examples of actions taken by local authorities to protect the integrity of the law and the intent of the law. It has, in my State, brought some peace to the woods. There are examples of how land managers went the extra mile involving the local groups in the decisionmaking process of salvage. The involvement was loggers, environmental groups, local government, and land managers themselves.”