[Washington state - one of the most military-dependent states in the country - has] had a lot of good breaks in the last five years ... so I'm not going to second-guess the commission. |
99 percent of species put on this list are not extinct. That is not a failure; that's an enormous success. |
He was a prolific legislator, but he was also a wonderful human being. |
Here's my problem with the Endangered Species Act: We don't take any eagles. We don't take any wolves. |
I don't see [President Bush] overturning this. |
I don't see the president overturning this, |
It's going to be a 2006 elections issue. |
That was exasperating, to see this matter trivialized like that, |
There's a real strong argument that having two strong shipyards on each coast makes good sense, |
They have tested some things, and they have the potential to do some things in the future, |
This is being brought up for partisan political reasons, and it's not a serious attempt to pass it, |
This would have been a nice thing to have, but hey, the commission overwhelmingly decided the secretary of defense has not made a case to close down the second shipyard on the East Coast, |
This would have been a nice thing to have, but hey, the commission overwhelmingly decided the secretary of Defense has not made a case to close down the second shipyard on the East Coast. There's a real strong argument that having two strong shipyards on each coast makes good sense. |
We all know these riders have gotten this bill into trouble every single year. |
We are increasingly hearing from those who are paying the bills for these efforts and experiencing the impacts of additional regulations on their lives that they don't understand how we can ask them to support such costs and at the same time continue to harvest the wild salmon we're trying to protect. |