Elizabeth Furse: “I want to issue a wake-up call to the American people. I want to say to the American voters: Please watch closely what's…”

“I want to issue a wake-up call to the American people. I want to say to the American voters: Please watch closely what's happening here in Congress. I don't think you'll like what you'll see. What you'll see during this appropriations process is a back-door attack on the environment. Instead of reauthorizing and finetuning laws in the light of day, this Congress is covertly starving programs to death through lack of funding. The American people trust that the environmental laws that we've had on the books for the past two decades will continue to be enforced, because they're law. Wrong. This new Republican Congress is in the process of: Taking away money from the Fish and Wildlife Service which lists species that are on the brink of extinction; taking away money from the EPA which stops polluters from dumping waste into our rivers; and taking away money from the Forest Service which ensures logging operations don't harm salmon spawning habitat. So even if though there's a law soon to protect the environment, there will be no money to enforce it. America, is this really what you voted for? I don't think so.”