[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 96 (Tuesday, July 13, 2004)]
[House]
[Pages H5544-H5545]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       SAVE OUR NATURAL RESOURCES

  (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, I would suggest to the last speaker the 
weapons of mass destruction are in the minds of the administration.
  If anyone needs a reason to send this administration packing, here it 
is: the President has announced the biggest land grab in U.S. history. 
The beneficiaries are the big timber companies. The victims are our 
national forests and the American people.
  The President has proposed new rules that would declare open season 
for big timber companies to log 58 million acres of our most precious 
wilderness areas and our most precious national forests. Roads to 
nowhere will scar the land forever. It will turn old growth into board 
feet, two by fours.
  Unless we act, this administration will repeal the last protection of 
our wilderness areas.

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  Our only hope is for a new administration that can prevent this 
environmental disaster from happening.

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  We have 112 days before we get rid of the biggest national disaster 
we have ever had, the President and his environmental policies.

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