Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I won't tell the gentleman from Utah that the Utah Association of Counties is opposed to this and all the trails that he is talking about come from the State's side of projects. That is beside the point. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa). Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member and colleague from Utah. I appreciate his service and his force with which he does things here. Mr. Speaker, all right, where are we? Gigantic deficits, yet we want to add to the burden of that deficit with a forced $900 million, nearly $1 billion, every year in this bill for acquiring new Federal land. Now, I come from the West, so we are already ravaged by wildfire, by unmanaged lands that are detrimental to the neighbors, to the private lands. I have three fires going on in my district right now. A lot of this emanates from unmanaged Forest Service lands. So, we want to add to their inability to manage even more lands in this legislation. Now, the part of the bill that Mr. Bishop had authored is a good part, taking care of the backlog that we have in our parks and our lands, if you would listen to him, $20 billion worth of backlog that we haven't found a way to pay for yet. Yet, instead of finishing our dinner, we are already going for the dessert by buying more lands that we can't afford and we know we can't manage.…”