[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 5057-5058]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               EARTH DAY

  (Mr. QUIGLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. QUIGLEY. Mr. Speaker, the founder of Earth Day, Wisconsin Senator 
Gaylord Nelson, was asked in 2005, just before his death at the age of 
89, if Earth Day should be celebrated. ``Our work is not finished,'' he 
replied. ``There's a lot more that needs to be done.''
  As we enter wildfire season, watershed infrastructure that would 
mitigate future contamination of local rivers and reservoirs is still 
being rebuilt from last season, and funding for rebuilding is only now 
being allocated,

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having been delayed under sequestration, affecting lives and homes.
  We've yet to craft an agenda that talks of a multiyear transportation 
plan or climate change. And, of course, the green legislator at heart 
would love to see tools like the Antiquities Act as a job-creating 
mechanism rather than spending time on the floor fighting against 
rolling back NEPA as we're doing this week with H.R. 678, 
unnecessarily, at the expense of supporting hydropower, as we should.
  No, our work is not finished. There's a lot more to be done.

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