I remember the days that James Watt walked in as the Secretary of Interior and the gas position that some of our colleagues had regarding that. Some folks did not think he lived up to it. I remember when our current Secretary of Interior…

Mr. Chairman, the minority has looked at this particular amendment. We support it. I believe it is supported by the DOD, and I remember the Committee on Armed Services supported this, we feel it takes care of the problems that we are…

I cannot understand why the gentleman wants to put handcuffs on the Forest Service, when we have these professionals, we spend all this money training them, we put them out there, they come to us and recommend it. Why would we want to put…

the minority has looked at the gentleman's amendment. We have no objection to it, think it adds to the bill, and we would accept it on this side.

I think as we look at this particular piece of legislation and what was passed before in the biological survey, this is one thing the body could see the importance of, taking care of private land. If anything is sacred in America, it…

It makes a lot of difference. They do not clearcut as much as they used to in the past. They cut it back.

In 1934 a forester by the name of C. J. Buck wrote a letter to Forest Service supervisors telling them to use no more clearcutting, favoring a shift to partial cutting and concepts of studying trees. This lasted for 20 years. So we have…

I believe that decisions on wilderness are best left to the members of the affected State. They are the only ones elected by those who are directly affected by these decisions. Therefore, I agree with Chairman Miller that we should defer…

I rise in support of S. 341 which would direct a land exchange of about 132 acres of Federal lands in Colorado for approximately 1,307 of inholdings owned by Eagle and Pitken Counties in Colorado. This bill has been fully explained by…

I think my friend from California has brought up a very interesting point, talking about the Civil War in the United States of America. As we go back and look at the history of that, it was a grisly, mean, dirty, bloody affair, and we lost…

It has been interesting as we go through the downsizing of the military, we all realize that this is a necessary thing to do. But the question comes down to how far do we go? We are going through a base closing. We have done a 1991 and…