Political Quotes

“I will explain each of these amendments briefly, and, if further discussion is desired, we will separate it out. This first amendment is proposed on behalf of Senator Chafee as the chairman of the Committee on Environment and Public Works. We have, as I pointed out during my opening remarks, added to and expanded the authority of our various land management agencies to charge entrance fees and to use those entrance fees in large measure for the improvement of the facilities at which they are collected. Senator Chafee and his committee have a slight modification in that connection with respect to some of those facilities. We have viewed it. It is the opinion of his committee it is included for that reason. The second amendment is proposed on behalf of the two Senators from Idaho. It will move $100,000 of an appropriation from the Running Creek Ranch land acquisition project to the National Forest Service appropriation for 'jammer,' an old logging road inventory in Idaho. The third, proposed by the Senator from Ohio [Mr. DeWine], would add one additional county to an existing moratorium on land acquisitions for the Wayne National Forest in the State of Ohio. The next, on behalf of the Senator from North Carolina [Mr. Faircloth] removes approximately 100 acres from a 9,000-acre Snowbird Wilderness Study Area. The fourth, for myself, moves $308,000 from Forest Service construction for the Mt.…”