Subject: Re: Logging/Spending Cuts Bill
Date: Jul 1 10:20:05 1995
From: Don Baccus - donb at Rational.COM


>Clinton has put up a smoke screen around this issue, stating that some
>revisions, negotiated with the White House, address the original
>bill's damning environmental provisions (NOT!). He also says he's been
>given assurances by the Senator (Hatfield?) from Oregon that there will
>be no abusive logging ??!!

While I largely agree with your sentiments, I must point out that
there was one major change: the period of suspension of environmental
laws was shortened to end Dec 1996 rather than Sept 1997.

Clinton did wimp out, thought, there's no doubting that. But he'd
have lost eventually on this issue, I don't think there's much
doubt of that, as well.

- Don Baccus, Portland OR <donb at rational.com>