Political Quotes

“I thank Chairman Young, and thank you for your help on this, and Chairman Hastings as well. Mr. Grijalva, thank you for your comments, and I want to thank Representative DeFazio for his work on this, among many others. Mr. Speaker, as was pointed out, in 2012 this bill passed the House unanimously, and I am glad to see this legislation is once again before this Chamber. The legislation is a collaborative effort between the City of Prineville, Crook County, local farmers, the Deschutes River Conservancy, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, among others. I am grateful for their efforts in creating and moving this legislation forward. This bill we have before us will create jobs in central Oregon and will remove government red tape. This is actually a photo of Bowman Dam. This is what we are talking about. When the ``wild and scenic'' designation was passed by Congress, they sort of arbitrarily and temporarily, at the time--this was decades ago--placed the wild and scenic designation line right here in the yellow stripe of the road. Now, I have told people that the only thing wild and scenic about a dam is if you are falling over the face of it and tumbling down, then it might be wild and scenic. What we seek to do is move this boundary off the center of this dam and go down about a quarter of a mile where the river really becomes natural.…”