[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9328]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



             STOP THE SNEAK ATTACKS AGAINST OUR ENVIRONMENT

  (Mr. BONIOR asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BONIOR. Mr. Speaker, we have seen this before. At the last 
minute, when they think nobody is looking, the special interests are 
launching a sneak attack on our environment.
  A bill that is supposed to provide support for our pilots overseas is 
being hijacked in a secret assault on our environment here at home. 
These so-called riders could never pass on their own.
  These so-called riders would open up the pristine waters of Alaska's 
Glacier Bay National Park to destructive commercial fishing; another 
would throw open the American west to more giant strip mines, with the 
dangers of chemically bleached waste leaching into our waters and the 
specter of cyanide poisoning in our rivers and streams. And the list 
goes on and on.
  These anti-environment riders have no place in the emergency 
supplemental conference report. We need to pass the bill to support our troops this week, not drag it down with a series of unpopular, unrelated and unacceptable anti-environmental 
riders.

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