[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 92 (Thursday, June 20, 1996)]
[House]
[Page H6632]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




       INTRODUCTION OF AMENDMENT TO FIX THE LAWLESS LOGGING RIDER

  (Ms. FURSE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. FURSE. Today, Mr. Speaker, we have a chance to do something that 
the people of this country have been asking us to do for almost a year. 
We have a chance to fix the infamous lawless logging rider. We will be 
offering a bipartisan amendment which will be called the Porter-Yates-
Furse-Morella amendment. It will go a long way toward fixing that 
infamous rider. That rider passed with no hearings, no scientific 
input, in the middle of the night, stuck on another bill, and no one 
knew the consequences. But soon the people told us the consequences. We 
heard from grandmothers, Boy Scouts, fishermen, scientists, and local 
communities. They said the rider had been a disaster, and they were 
right.
  Our amendment, Mr. Speaker, it not antilogging, our amendment is 
prologging under the law. We have been asked to trust a huge Federal 
bureaucracy to just do the right thing. Trust us, they say. We say, 
trust the law. So I hope and we hope that my colleagues will help 
support this amendment that will fix the lawless logging rider.

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