House Proceeding on Sep 10th, 2009 :: 0:38:40 to 0:43:15
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John Sarbanes: to support the bishop amendment, and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from arizona. mr. grijalva: thank you, mr. speaker. at this point let me yield as much time as he may consume to the sponsor of the legislation, mr. sarbanes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. sarbanes: thank you, mr.

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Speech By: John Sarbanes

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John Sarbanes: speaker. and i want to thank chairman grijalva and chaian rahall as well for their strong support of the chesapeake bay gateways and watertrails network. this is a bill that i believe is quite noncontroversial. we are here today debating it because there is some difference of perspective with respect to whether there ought to be a permanent authorization

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John Sarbanes: of this bill or not. that's something i strongly support because i think it sends a very powerful message to the citizenry in the chesapeake bay watershed that the federal government is ready to be a partner on a permanent basis. and if we want people to step

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John Sarbanes: forward and take ownersh he community level and across the watershed, we need to send that message to them. and there's no better way to send t permanently authorize this rogram. the chesapeake bay has a tremendous store auto to tell. i'm from -- story to tell. i'm from maryland, of course,

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John Sarbanes: and we consider ourselves in many ways stewards of the chesapeake bay. it is a national treasure. it's the largest estuary body in the united states. but it doesn't just touch the state of maryland. it touches six states and the district of columbia. it touches new york, pennsylvania, maryland, delaware, virginia and west virginia.

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John Sarbanes: the watershed stretches from michael arcuri's district where he represents cooperstown, new york, sctt's district in virginia. the co-sponsors of this bill are both democrat and republican. indicating the strong support

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John Sarbanes: that it's had from the beginning of the program. . some of you know i have introduced other legislation which has focused very specifically on how we engage the next generation, engage our young people in the environment, get them outdoors learning. this is a wonderful resource, the chesapeake bay gateways

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John Sarbanes: network is a wonderful resource for that. there are over 156 sites, historic, natural, cultural, recreational sites across the water shed that are available because of the funding that comes through technical assistance and other grant funding, are available as a

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John Sarbanes: resource for the next generation to take advanta available for older generations to pass on the history of this area and this region generation. so i'm excited and i appreciate the gentleman's sympathies to me, but i must say any

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John Sarbanes: opportunity that i have to talk abou network is one that i would seize happily. i do want to reiterate that this represents the national park service's component of a larger partnership that exists on behalf of the chesapeake bay on

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John Sarbanes: the part of the federal government that includes the national park service, that includes the national oceanic and spheric administration, that -- and atmospheric administration, and this is a partnership that has worked fabulously over many, many years. so in closing let me just

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John Sarbanes: emphasize again and i know we'll debate it a little later with respect to the amendment that's going to be proposed by congressman bishop, but let me just emif a -- family size again how important it is this be be a we need to send a message, powerful message to the citizens

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John Sarbanes: that are part of the bay water shed that the federal government is here to stay when it comes to preserving and protecting this resource that we have. that i yield back to chairman grijalva. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from washington. mr. hastings: thank you, mr.