Political Quotes

“I make my point. You are talking about property owners that want to develop. There are property owners in America, folks, 65 million of them who just want to live in their homes. They are senior citizens, they are low-income people. They are not developers. I know that some of my colleagues think that all Americans are covered under this, but only people who want to operate under some kind of Federal permit are covered. That is not the 65 million typical homeowners. ... But that the adjoining or downstream property owner has a right of civil action. So what we are saying here is we are creating two categories. If you are a major developer, you have an absolute right to reimbursement by Federal taxpayers if there is a tiny diminishment of the optimal development value of your land, but if you are an adjoining or downstream property owner, you can go to court.”