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Robert Smith: “Mr. Chairman, let me say again that some of the opposition that the gentleman states to this bill is clarified in this…”

On the recordOctober 30, 1997
Mr. Chairman, let me say again that some of the opposition that the gentleman states to this bill is clarified in this amendment that is about to be presented, which basically is silent on the question of property right. It does not convey a property right nor does it deny a property right, so we go back to existing law, and we go back to court cases. That is all. The same point about monitoring. Mr. Chairman, if the gentleman does not trust Mr. Glickman, the Secretary of Agriculture, and Mr. Babbitt, the Secretary of the Interior, who have all the responsibility for monitoring, then who should we really trust? So I think the gentleman is a little off base in the question of monitoring, and certainly he is off base on the question of the property right.
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Robert Smith
Oregon
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Discussing an amendment related to property rights and monitoring during a committee meeting.

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