[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 17 (Friday, January 27, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H809]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


     CONVERSATION BETWEEN SECRETARY BABBITT AND CONGRESSMAN HAYES?

  (Mr. HAYES asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HAYES. Mr. Speaker, the Northwestern School of Law, Lewis and 
Clark College, has a journal that contains an article written by 
Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt. I know you do not care.
  It attacks almost every property rights ownership group in America. 
That you ought to care about. And what you really ought to care about 
is that it has a whole page devoted to a meeting Mr. Babbitt had with 
me, except we never had a meeting. And in this meeting Mr. Babbitt 
says, ``I told Hayes he was a tricky, no good devil.'' I know I would 
remember that.
  He says that I responded, but I assure you that is not what I would 
have said. I would have said, ``Silly Babbitt, tricks are for the 
kids.''
  Mr. Babbitt also says I am a Republican from Louisiana. I will tell 
you what: That the job he is doing in the South and in the West, that 
is one mistake I may not change for him.

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