[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 39 (Thursday, March 22, 2001)]
[House]
[Pages H1063-H1064]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Mr. Speaker, the Bush administration has begun to right 
the wrongs of the past 8 years.
  This week, the Department of Interior announced that it would suspend

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mining regulations forced on the public in the waning minutes of the 
Clinton administration. Known as the 3809 regulations, the Clinton 
changes would have resulted in the loss of more than 3,000 jobs in 
Nevada alone and an economic shortfall in that State of up to $350 
million. In addition, the regulations would have forced the United 
States to become just as dependent on foreign-mined metals as we are on 
foreign-produced oil, the recipe for yet another national crisis. And 
it would have been the American consumers who would have suffered.
  Luckily, a new day has dawned and a new administration has arrived. 
The public can again have faith in their government and know that their 
views will be heard.
  I yield back the last-minute, reckless decisions of the prior 
administration and welcome the fair, responsible and sensible 
disposition of the new Bush administration.

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