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He prepared a superb history and analysis for the June 1999 House Resources Committee hearing on HR701 in Salt Lake City. Not only was Mr. Cushman not allowed to testify, his testimony wasn't even printed in the hearing record! The proceedings were heavily slanted in favor of hearing instead the pleas of agencies and organizations that were to receive the largesse of funds to be distributed under the bill certainly self serving testimony of highly predicable and minimally informative content.
This suppression of an outstanding scholarly treatise on the subject of federal government land acquisition and accompanying destruction of communities and citizen abuse has deprived the Congress and the public of critical information needed to evaluate and improve the subject bills. Grave doubt is cast on the credibility of the process in the House when a hearing is slanted in this way.
I have faith that the Senate will do a much better job of thoughtful deliberation on such a fundamental matter as buying massive amounts of private land with off budget trust funds.
I ask that the attached testimony of Mr. Cushman be included in the printed record of your committee hearing.
Sincerely yours,
Lee Ann Gerhart
3818 Clay Products Road Anchorage Alaska 99517
Be informed! Don't allow yourself to be snowed by CARA.