[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 115 (Monday, July 17, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H7016]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            WAKE UP, AMERICA

  (Ms. FURSE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. FURSE. Mr. Speaker, I want to issue a wake-up call to the 
American people. I want to say to the American voters: Please watch 
closely what's happening here in Congress. I don't think you'll like 
what you'll see.
  What you'll see during this appropriations process is a back-door 
attack on the environment. Instead of reauthorizing and finetuning laws 
in the light of day, this Congress is covertly starving programs to 
death through lack of funding.
  The American people trust that the environmental laws that we've had 
on the books for the past two decades will continue to be enforced, 
because they're law. Wrong. This new Republican Congress is in the 
process of: Taking away money from the Fish and Wildlife Service which 
lists species that are on the brink of extinction; taking away money 
from the EPA which stops polluters from dumping waste into our rivers; 
and taking away money from the Forest Service which ensures logging 
operations don't harm salmon spawning habitat.
  So even if though there's a law soon to protect the environment, 
there will be no money to enforce it.
  America, is this really what you voted for? I don't think so.
  

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