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Malcolm Wallop: it is not often that the Wilderness Society and the Senator from Wyoming are on the same side of an issue. It may be…

On the recordApril 12, 1994
it is not often that the Wilderness Society and the Senator from Wyoming are on the same side of an issue. It may be that they would even change their side of the issue if they knew I was going to insert their impacts. But in the majority leader's park in Maine, Acadia--which I, incidentally, helped the majority leader expand a few years back--it was slated to receive $631,000 from the economic stimulus legislation. The money would have enabled the park to maintain seasonal ranger staff and its interpretive program at 1992 levels, tackle sewage problems, step up efforts to help endangered species, and undertake other projects that have been put off in recent years. It did not happen. We have Acadia in Maine; Big Bend in Texas; Cape Hatteras National Seashore in North Carolina; Cuyahoga Valley in Ohio; Glacier National Park in Montana; Great Smokey Mountains in Tennessee, the Presiding Officer's State; Hot Springs in Arkansas, the President's home State; Indiana Dunes in Indiana; Mammoth Cave in Kentucky; North Cascades National Park in Washington State; Olympic National Park in Washington State; Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado; Shenandoah in Virginia; Sleeping Bear Dunes in Michigan; Yellowstone in Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho; Yosemite in California, and Zion National Park in Utah. This is a limited number, and that is what I have asked to have printed in the Record.
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Malcolm Wallop
Republican · Wyoming

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Discussing funding for national parks during a speech on economic stimulus legislation.

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