Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, this has been an interesting debate. I listened as the gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr. Kennedy] said that only 4 percent of the timber is off the Federal lands, and maybe that does not have a very big impact to Massachusetts, but in Detroit, OR, in Mill City, OR, and Idanha, OR, communities that I represent that are surrounded by Federal forest land, it makes a real big impact, and when they are trying to keep their schools open and they are trying to keep their businesses open, it does have a huge impact on those people. Earlier we saw a picture of a forest road that had erosion problems, and I think that that is significant, and one of the things that is significant about that is we have changed the method of building the roads, we have increased the cost to prevent the erosion that was pictured there, and, as my colleagues know, if it is simply a question of getting the timber out, timber companies can get in and haul logs out for a fraction of the cost that we demand that they pay, but because we want those roads to be there for years, because we want those roads to be available for camping and hunting and fishing, and I have gone into the national forest, and I have gone hunting and I have gone camping, and I have gone fishing on those lands, on those roads that were paid for with the logging moneys.”