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"Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster."
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"Iraq continues to be an immense disaster, and the President has no apparent plan for getting our troops out."

"The Fukushima nuclear complex went on to become the worst man-made engineering disaster in all of human history, outside of war."

"Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen."

"You know, when something like, even like a coal mine disaster, or something like this, you think that well everybody's going to make a run to be able to get out, but it happened to fast that they were just all dead."

"These days, it's really been uninteresting except when disasters occur."

"One morning, just like 9/11, there's going to be a disaster. I have yet to see the United Nations do anything effective with either Iran or North Korea."

"There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster."
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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."

"I remember those great days when we were at $176 million before the Reagan Revolution came to town."

"More than 60,000 jobs have been lost in the commercial aviation industry in the United States since 1999."

"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 authorization bill."

"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 commercial aircraft industry with U.S. companies."

"This funding from the National Endowment for the Arts has been like the Good Housekeeping seal of approval."

"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 they have 25 because they cannot afford more."

"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 to be a ranger out on the trail to tell them about the important cultural and historic areas within the Olympic National Park."

"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 policy could lead to further declines in these wild stocks."

"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 wild."
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