Political Quotes

“Before I talk about this amendment, the gentlewoman referred to the importance of having trees. No one disagrees with that. Yes, I live in the Texas Hill Country, where live oaks are something we try to figure out how to protect, especially, for example, when you have an ice storm like earlier this year. You are out there figuring out a way to go save your trees by cutting limbs and figuring out how to preserve the beauty that God gave us. Nobody disagrees with that. {time} 0930 Nonetheless, the idea that a core responsibility of the Federal Government is tree equity is absurd. The State of Texas is the eighth largest economy in the world. We are perfectly capable of figuring out how to deal with trees. We don't have any money. We are $34 trillion in debt, $2 trillion a year in deficit spending, and we are talking about tree equity? What the hell are we doing? That is the question here. I love trees. I love live oak trees. I do everything I can to preserve and protect the environment in which I live because--this is a crazy idea--I live there. I actually like to fish, and I like to live in clean air and clean water. I like to have an environment that is great to be in for my kids and my family. We had a Clean Water Act and a Clean Air Act in Texas before the Environmental Protection Agency was even created here in this town.…”