Political Quotes

“I think I would be remiss as ranking member on this committee and a comanager on this bill if I did not fight for the rights of the rest of the Members in this body to have a vote. I think it is what it is all about. That is for debate. I haven't heard anybody come down here and talk against the merits of this second-degree amendment. It will not go away. And silence tells me that maybe the case has already been made and hard to defend of what we are trying to do as far as forest health is concerned. Twenty years, 25 years is a track record, a known track record. And now we see the culmination of those management practices over that many years in the growth of the forest and what it can lead to if we allow folks who probably don't have all the experience in the world, on the ground management of a renewable resource, what that brings us to. So I would hope that we would support cloture or deny cloture so this issue can be talked out because it will not go away.”