[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 41 (Friday, March 22, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H2671]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         EVERGLADES RESTORATION

  (Mr. FOLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FOLEY. Mr. Speaker, I do not want to yell today. I want to thank 
this Chamber. I want to thank the conferees of the Senate and the House 
who have agreed to put $200 million in the budget for the Everglades 
restoration in Florida. The administration proposed a tax to fund the 
Everglades restoration. We proposed a solution, an immediate infusion 
of $200 million, plus vital lands to protect the fragile Everglades in 
Florida, protecting water supplies, protecting our second largest 
national park, and doing so in a bipartisan fashion.
  Mr. Speaker, I commend my colleagues, particularly Speaker Gingrich, 
Senators Dole and Mack, and the 299 Members of this House who supported 
the efforts of environmental protection. This Congress, when it wants 
to, can work together in a bipartisan spirit. I hope we do more 
bipartisan efforts in the future in order to bring this Nation to the 
point of pride that it once was where it can restore the pride in 
ourselves and our abilities to govern, lower the rhetoric, lower the 
anxiety and allow us to proceed in an orderly fashion for democracy.

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