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get 139 votes. And if we come up with Mr. Wirth's bill or Mr. 

 Mrazek's bill, I am going to suggest that is enough votes to have 

 this legislation back before us next year. 



Mr. Chairman, I want to solve this issue for the communities, 

 but I also have to have the communities' employment. Last elec- 

 tion, and I bring up the partisanship in this, I ran against the 

 Mrazek bill in southeast Alaska, and I received 70 percent of the 

 vote. That should tell you what the people of Alaska are thinking 

 in southeast. And to have somebody from outside who knows noth- 

 ing at all about this issue, start telling me that my people have to 

 be put out of work and we are ruining the last rain forest and 

 somehow this is connected with the Brazilian forest, is absolutely 

 ludicrous. 



Mr. Chairman, I hope that you read this statement and hope you 

 take my words of what I have spoken to you in good faith, not as 

 criticism of this committee. I commend you for it, but what is oc- 

 curring by the special interest groups that know nothing of this 

 issue, the conveyance of misinformation, in fact, dishonesty to the 

 general public, is to me the worst case of legislative attempt that I 

 have seen in my 17 years in the United States Congress. 



Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 



[The prepared statement of Mr. Young follows:] 



