Malcolm Wallop: “I oppose this amendment, though I will not call for a vote on it. This is an amendment that is the reflection of dozens…”

“I oppose this amendment, though I will not call for a vote on it. This is an amendment that is the reflection of dozens of other amendments over the years and is the point I was trying to make in the morning hour. We add and we add to this poor benighted agency we call the National Park Service and we are killing it with a thousand hooks. It is not that I have an objection to a jazz park. It is not that I had an objection to a Mojave Park. It is that I cannot understand how people who feel responsible can add to this burden and continue and continue and continue. When comes the final straw? A few years back, we put in the house of the famous Mexican painter, Georgia O'Keeffe. After awhile, we had to take it back. A little while ago, we had the orchestra leader Lawrence Welk's dwelling. Mr. President, the Park Service and America's concept of parks has been so good that all of us somehow or another seek to satisfy a constituent by making yet another park. One of the worst that we have done is in the State of the occupant of the Chair, and I regret to say it, is Steam Town. It costs millions of dollars to the National Park Service to create an entity that is not worthy of being called a national park. That is not to say that I do not believe that a jazz park is contrary to the interests of the National Park Service, although the Director said that he could not afford it when he testified about it.”