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Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act, 2011

Floor Speech

Date: Feb. 18, 2011
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Environment

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Mr. YOUNG of Florida. I thank the gentleman for yielding.

As much as I admire and respect the introducer of this amendment, I really have to oppose this amendment.

The beaches are an important and a valued asset to the United States of America. Economically, they are a huge economic factor. For protection of properties on land, it is a huge protection device, beaches against the hurricane, the storm surge.

You might get the idea that I represent a district that has a lot of beaches, and I would tell you that this is extremely important to our economy. When the BP oil spill was flowing through the Gulf of Mexico, we worried every day whether that was going to come to our beaches.

In my part of the State it did not, thank God. But we were concerned what that might do to destroy a major part of our economy.

Mr. Frelinghuysen makes a strong argument, and I thank him for letting me support him in his opposition.

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