[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 34 (Wednesday, March 23, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: March 23, 1994]
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            MEMBERS GUARANTEED VOTE ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

  (Mr. TAUZIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TAUZIN. Mr. Speaker, March may have come in like a lamb, but it 
is going to go out like a lion. This month has been very interesting. 
This month environmentalists met to discuss the environmental agenda of 
this body, and they determined in a memo that has just been released 
that they were going to take off the table most of the environmental 
reforms before this Congress and not give us a chance to vote on it. 
They were going to decide the agenda of this body.
  They were going to make sure we did not vote on endangered species 
reform or wetlands reform, the Clean Water Act, the Clean Drinking 
Water Act, Superfund, and a host of other environmental reforms. Why? 
Because they were afraid of something they call the unholy trinity.
  That is not some new satanic cult. It is just a satanic cult. It is 
just a few ideas. The unholy trinity to them is private property 
rights, unfunded mandates, and risk assessment and cost analysis, three 
important issues to this body and to Americans--in fact, so important 
that a court on March 10, in the Florida rock decision before the Court 
of Appeals ruled for the first time in a Federal court that no one 
should be denied compensation for a taking that occurred because of a 
denial of wetland permits.
  Mr. Speaker, we are going to get a chance to vote on those things 
regardless of the environmental community's memo and their decision to 
keep it from the floor. I ask Members to join me in support of the 
private property owners bill of rights, H.R. 3875. That is our chance 
to put it on the agenda and have a vote in this body on private 
property rights in America.

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