[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 111 (Thursday, July 25, 1996)]
[House]
[Pages H8519-H8520]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




              25TH ANNIVERSARY OF YOUTH CONSERVATION CORPS

  (Mr. DICKS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. DICKS. Mr. Speaker, today I had the pleasure of attending the 
25th anniversary of the Youth Conservation

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Corps, a program that was created in 1970 with the leadership of 
Congressman Lloyd Meeds and a former Senator from the State of 
Washington who served in the other body, Senator Henry M. Jackson. This 
is a program that employs several thousand people each summer working 
on our national parks, our wildlife refuges in order to do work and 
maintenance in those areas. It is modeled on the very successful 
Civilian Conservation Corps of the Roosevelt administration, and I had 
a chance to see these young workers today doing work on the C&O Canal 
and to hear their stories about their involvement, and again I think it 
emphasizes how important it is for us in this Congress to support 
programs like the YCC, and I believe that the taxpayers get a good 
return and young people get an opportunity to serve the country and 
work on important environmental projects.

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