On the recordApril 12, 1994
I would just say that USA Today is as confused by the budget process of Congress as are most Americans. They are dead wrong. There is not a little drawer down in Treasury inside of which lies land and conservation funds waiting for us to come and play with them. It does not exist. It has never existed from the first day that that took place. Mr. President, the Secretary of Interior and I do not get along on a lot of issues, and this one would be different if I did not get along with him either. But he has, for whatever reasons, chosen to ignore the studies of his own department as to how much this would cost; his own study produced in 1993 in the month of October, in which they state that this is going to cost $125 million over 5 years, without including any construction, without including any development, without including any housing, without including any facilities, just for operations.
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