Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of H.R. 2578. Title V of this bill incorporates my legislation, H.R. 1545, and would recognize and establish the Waco Mammoth Site as a national monument. In 1978, Waco residents Paul Barron and Eddie Bufkin were out looking for arrowheads and fossils along the Bosque River. During their journey, they happened to come across a large bone protruding from the Earth. Realizing the possible significance of this discovery, Mr. Barron and Mr. Bufkin immediately took the bone to the Strecker Museum at Baylor University for further analysis. Over a period of nearly 30 years following their discovery, crews of paleontological and archaeological experts, scientists, and volunteers slowly excavated this lost world, eventually unearthing more than two- dozen mammoths and other artifacts. In 2006, the Waco Mammoth Foundation, a nonprofit organization of local citizens, helped make the site a public park. The city of Waco and Baylor University have been working together since to protect the site and to develop further research and educational opportunities at the site. This legislation will recognize the unique discovery of an extinct species while providing education and enjoyment for families and students visiting from all over the country and throughout the world while benefiting future generations for many years to come. A special resource study on the Waco Mammoth Site was conducted by the National Park Service and was completed in 2008.…”