Political Quotes

“I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to support this conference report and commend Chairwoman Lowey and Ranking Member Granger and their staffs for the hard work that goes into this. Not many people understand the important and long time that is spent by the staff in trying to put these bills together. I could sit here until the cows come home, which might be shorter than we think if we run out of cows and get rid of those. But anyway, I could talk about the provisions in this bill that are important to Idaho, whether it is the PILT payment, the sage-grouse listing, or other provisions, but this is an important bill. What I would like to bring to my colleagues' attention is a very important section of this conference agreement, section 7. It is with sadness that this section is included. It honors the late Stephen Sepp. Sepp, as he was known to his friends and colleagues, spent the last 8 years as a senior adviser to the House Appropriations Committee. He was instrumental in the enactment of division O of the 2018 Consolidated Appropriations Act. I know this division well because it was the fire borrowing and forest management reforms I advocated and worked on for several years. Sepp steadfastly worked with Members, the committees, the administration, and staff over several years to resolve the problems that fire borrowing caused for the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior.…”