[Pombos bill is] not modernizing the Act, it is euthanizing it, ... It is putting it down with the guise of kindness, with the guise of making it stronger. |
[Washington State Democrat Jay Inslee brought an enlarged photo of the bald eagle to the House floor.] What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in, ... This isn't modernization of the act. It's euthanasia of the act. |
I fear that the days are soon upon us where we will see daily reports of exotic, unnecessary and grossly overpriced purchases of goods and services under the guise of providing hurricane relief and recovery. |
I found your study to be critical ... and there is evidence that logging may have some consequences we may not fully understand. |
It does not appear that there is a single inspector general who is in full charge of seeing that these monies are wisely spent. |
It is a happy coincidence between what my constituents believe and my interests. |
People do not pay their taxes for Uncle Sam to burn down neighborhoods. |
Right now we do not have adequate measures of safety because 90 to 95 percent of those bags are unscreened in the belly of an airplane. |
The abuses and failures we've seen in Iraq -- we don't want to duplicate those here at home, |
The abuses and failures we've seen in Iraq; we don't want to duplicate those here at home, |
The Bush administration's callous reference to this simply as a 'California problem' with no short-term solution threatens not only consumers in the West but the entire U.S. economy, |
The president recently asked, 'Is our children learning?' Well in this budget, they is not. |
There's been a dramatic change in climate since before Christmas. It's shifted people. Some majority-party members are thinking twice about this bill. |
They want to give away the taxpayers' gold. If somebody went to Fort Knox and took gold out, they'd be in jail for the rest of their lives. But in national forests, people can take gold (under the bill) and be considered friends of the Republican Party. |
This is a gross and disturbing violation of the commitment to keep water healthy in the straits and Puget Sound. |