Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, this entire day we should have had Yogi Berra come in here and say it is like deja vu all over again because, once again, this particular piece of legislation we saw last year when it passed out of committee--sponsored by Mr. LaMalfa then--at the same time, passed the floor at the same time, and now we are bringing it back here to see if we can get it all the way through to the finish line. The bill is one that we have talked about for quite awhile, but it also has, I think, three significant things it accomplishes, why it has to be in bill form and can't simply be administratively negotiated in some way. The first one, obviously, is it nullifies certain restrictions that were imposed by the State of California's conservation law. Even if that restriction to the land title were not a problem, it also solves the problem that was created because the Obama administration BIA appointees, in their haste trying to approve a fee-to-trust land acquisition, cut some legal corners--they cut a lot of legal corners-- which added to a lot of appeals and litigation, all of which cost everyone a whole lot of money. The second specific thing it does is prohibit gaming in this Camp 4 area, as was said, which is a concern of the county of Santa Barbara that will obviously, when this passes, lose a great deal of jurisdiction over the land in that area.…”