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“SELLING OUR NATIONAL FORESTS” mentioning the U.S. Dept of Agriculture was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H5050 on July 12, 2006.
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SELLING OUR NATIONAL FORESTS
(Mr. KELLER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. KELLER. Mr. Speaker, the bureaucrats are at it again. First, they came up with the idea of selling off 300,000 acres of our precious national forest lands, including 1,000 acres of the Ocala National Forest in my district. They made this reckless budget proposal without any input whatsoever from Members of Congress or the American public.
After the fact, 130,000 Americans wrote in to oppose this proposal. This week, the United States Department of Agriculture bureaucrats arrogantly told the press they want to move forward anyway, despite Congress and the American public. The pathetic attempt of the Department of Agriculture bureaucrats to sell our national forests is financially short-sighted and environmentally reckless.
You can lead a bureaucrat to water, but you can't make him think. Well, we are going to do the thinking for you and reject this insane proposal.
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