Norm Dicks Quotes

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• The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.
• Last year, Congress gave the Department of Defense the authority to design a new civilian personnel system for its employees as part of the defense…
• This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval.
• The American people are going to judge the majority party here today. If they go out here and vote for this rule that allows this…
• During the past 30 years, European governments have provided more than $15 billion in the form of low- and no-cost loans to Airbus for the…
• These subsidies from four European governments, which include aircraft launch assistance, capital injections, debt forgiveness, have enabled Airbus to develop and range market airliners well…
• Over 30 years ago, Airbus was founded by a European consortium of French, German, and later Spanish and British companies to compete in the large…
• More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999.
• I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town.
• We are also working on the restoration of salmon runs, and we are doing a new process of mass marking with these fish so we…
• So when people go to the park this summer, they are not going to have the same quality of a visit. There is not going…
• Overtime, hatchery fish tend to show signs of domestication and these traits adapted to the hatchery environment can make it more difficult to survive in…
• The time has come for the American government to recognize the damage that has occurred to our economy, and to take firm action to curtail…
• The Smithsonian Institute is one of the most popular agencies of government in the United States.
• We must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive.
• For all of us who have been involved in the recovery efforts to bring back and strengthen wild salmon runs, we fear that this change…
• In fact, at Olympic National Park in my district, they 3 years ago had 130 summer employees they brought in for temporary work. This summer…
• Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.
• In my own area, Hood Canal, we are working with the USGS on dealing with this oxygenation problem.
• In 2003, the value of Airbus's orders was more than twice as much as Boeing's.

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